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What term describes pain associated with the membrane that covers the lungs?
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Pleurodynia
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The outer membrane which covers the lungs?
Phrenic
What layers protect the lungs?
The pleural membrane covers and protects the lungs.
Name and describes the two layers of the pleura?
Visceral and parietal visceral- covers the lungs, thin serous membrane parietal- lines the inner chest wall and covers diaphram
What is the delicate transparent membrane that covers the lungs?
what is the delicate membrain that cover the lungs
What is serous membrane associated with the lungs?
The outer layer of a serous membrane is called the parietal layer and is always attached to the surrounding tissues. The inner layer is called the visceral layer and is firmly attached to the organ it covers
The double membrane that covers the lungs and lines the thoracic cavity is?
Pleura is the double membrane that cover and line in the thoracic cavity.
What membrane covers the heart in a pig?
The pericardium is the sac-like membrane surrounding the heart in the fetal pig, as well as in humans.
What sac cover the lungs?
The membrane which immediately covers the lungs is the visceral pleura.
What is the pleurae pericardium and peritoneum also known as?
I would think you mean, 'pleura'. That is a dlicate membrane that covers the lungs and chest wall. The visceral pleura is what covers the lungs, the parietal pleura covers the chest wall and diaphram. 'pericardium' is a double-layered sac surrounding the heart and large vessels entering and leaving the heart. 'peritoneum' is a serous membrane that covers the entire abdominal wall and envelops the organs contained in the abdomen.
What serous membrane covers the surface of the abdominal organs?
Viscera denotes the organs in the body cavities. (The heart confined in the Pericardial cavity, the lungs in the Pleural cavity, and the abdominal organs in the Peritoneal cavity). Visceral membrane (visceral serosa) covers those organs.
What is pain of the diaphragm?
Pleuralgia or pleurodynia is pain in the pleura, the double membrane that covers the lungs.
What membrane attaches directly to the lungs?
The pleural membrane.
