The plural form of the noun 'pleura' is pleurae.
The noun pleura is the singular form as a word for a membrane that envelopes the lungs of mammals.The plural noun is pleurae.The noun pleura is the plural form as a word for an insect body part.The singular noun is pleuron.
The plural fluid about 1 to 2 ml lubricates the visceral and parietal pleura during inspiration and expiration.
Because it comes from the greek word pleura, a feminine singular noun in the nominitive case, the plural form, grammatically speaking, would be pleurai (plurr-eye). Whether or not this is the medically accepted plural, I am not sure. Things often get lost in translation (to use a bad idiom) when words are ported from another language to English.
Visceral pleura
The visceral pleura is deep to the parietal pleura. The visceral is closer to the lungs.
The membrane lining on the lung is the visceral pleura and the membrane lining the inside of the chest cavity is the parietal pleura.
Visceral pleura. The parietal pleura surrounds the outside of the lung. When you are dissecting, the parietal pleura is the layer of lung that you remove. It is difficult to remove the visceral pleura, but not impossible.
Visceral pleura. The parietal pleura surrounds the outside of the lung. When you are dissecting, the parietal pleura is the layer of lung that you remove. It is difficult to remove the visceral pleura, but not impossible.
The pleura are part of the respiratory system. The pleura are the membranous coverings of each lung.
A Pleura is the lung cover.
Visceral Pleura
visceral pleura