pleura

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈplʊə.ɹə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈplʊɹ.ə/

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• Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

From Middle English, borrowed from Medieval Latin pleura.

pleura (plural pleuras or pleurae)

1. (anatomy) Each of a pair of smooth serous membranes which line the thorax and envelop the lungs in humans and other mammals.

   Meronyms: cervical pleura, costal pleura, diaphragmatic pleura, mediastinal pleura, parietal pleura, visceral pleura

   • 1856, William Youatt, William Charles Linnaeus Martin, A. Stevens, The Hog (page 120)

     The lungs […] may be said to be inclosed in separate bags, or to have distinct pleuras.

2. (zootomy) A lateral part in an animal body or structure.

• pleural
• pleuretic
• pulmonary pleura

• pleurisy

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pleura

1. plural of pleuron

• “pleura”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “pleura”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• epural, perula

Borrowed from Medieval Latin pleura, from Ancient Greek πλευρᾱ́ (pleurā́).

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pleura f (plural pleura's, diminutive pleuraatje n)

1. (anatomy) pleura

   Meronyms: longvlies, borstvlies

• pleura on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

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pleura

1. third-person singular past historic of pleurer

• pâleur

From Ancient Greek πλευρά (pleurá, “a rib, a side of something”).

pleura f (plural pleure)

1. (anatomy) pleura

• lupare

From Ancient Greek πλευρᾱ́ (pleurā́, “a rib, a side of something”).

• pleura: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈplɛːu̯.ra]
• pleurā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈplɛːu̯.ra]

pleura f (genitive pleurae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. (anatomy) The pleura.

First-declension noun.

• → English: pleura
• → French: pleura
• → Italian: pleura
• → Portuguese: pleura
• → Spanish: pleura

pleurā f

1. ablative singular of pleura

• Hyphenation: pleu‧ra

pleura f (plural pleuras)

1. (anatomy) pleura (serous membrane that covers the lungs and thorax)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpleuɾa/ [ˈpleu̯.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -euɾa
• Syllabification: pleu‧ra

pleura f (plural pleuras)

1. (anatomy) pleura

• “pleura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024