▪ I. pleural, a.1
(ˈplʊərəl)
[f. pleura + -al1; so F. pleural.]
Of or pertaining to the pleura.
| 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xx. 242 The accumulated fluid in the pleural cavity. 1846 G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. II. 498 The exudation in the pleural sac. 1884 M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose II. 47 Pleural inflammation..affecting the base of the left lung. |
▪ II. ˈpleural, a.2
[f. pleuron + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to the pleuron or side of the body, or (in arthropods) of a somite; costal; lateral.
| 1887 Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 417/2 Now broaden out the prora on the eggshell into oval lobes (proral pteres); and from each pole draw a lobe midway between the prora and the tropis (pleural pteres). 1888 Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 491 The somite..may consist of a dorsal plate, the tergum, and a ventral plate, the sternum, connected laterally by a soft pleural membrane. |