Pulmonary 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 visceralis, pleura pulmonalis
Gray's	subject #238 1087
Nerve	pulmonary plexus

Each lung is invested by an exceedingly delicate serous membrane, the pleura, which is arranged in the form of a closed invaginated sac. A portion of the serous membrane covers the surface of the lung and dips into the fissures between its lobes; it is called the pulmonary pleura (or visceral pleura).

The visceral pleura is attached directly to the lungs.

[edit] External links

• 74121277 at GPnotebook
• thoraxlesson2 at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)
• Atlas of anatomy at UMich lung_lymph - "Transverse section through lung"
• Histology at OU 14_15 - "Lung"
• MedEd at Loyola Grossanatomy/thorax0/thor_lec/thor6.html

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 As such, some of the information contained within it may be outdated.

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