Parietal pleura
A transverse section of the thorax, showing the contents of the middle and the posterior mediastinum. The pleural and pericardial cavities are exaggerated since normally there is no space between parietal and visceral pleura and between pericardium and heart.
Latin	pleura parietalis
Gray's	subject #238 1087
Nerve	intercostal nerves, phrenic nerves

The portion of the pleura external to the pulmonary pleura lines the inner surface of the chest wall, covers the diaphragm, and is reflected over the structures occupying the middle of the thorax; this portion is termed the parietal pleura.

The parietal pleura is attached to the wall of the thoracic cavity and innervated by the intercostal nerves

[edit] See also

• Visceral pleura

[edit] External links

• -1288372165 at GPnotebook
• thoraxlesson2 at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)
• Atlas of anatomy at UMich lung_pleura - "X-ray, chest, posteroanterior view"
• Atlas of anatomy at UMich lung_lymph - "Transverse section through lung"
• MedEd at Loyola Grossanatomy/thorax0/thor_lec/thor6.html
• Diagram at kent.edu

This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained within it may be outdated.

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