pleural cavity

American  

noun

1. a narrow, fluid-filled space between the pleural membranes of the lung and the inner chest wall.

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Etymology

Origin of pleural cavity

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

There are three main cavities in the body: one around the heart, the abdominal cavity, and the pleural cavity surrounding the lungs.

From Science Daily

So she came up with her own, less invasive design—a “biological Velcro” that would leverage the inner mechanisms of proteins to bind her brother’s outer lungs to his pleural cavity.

From Scientific American

The pleural cavities often contain some opaque, muddy, sero-purulent fluid, mixed with blood and having masses of lymph floating in it.

From Project Gutenberg

He showed, moreover, that he could, by percussion, outline very exactly the extent to which a consolidation of the lung has taken place, or the height to which an effusion into the pleural cavity reaches.

From Project Gutenberg

He recommended the puncture of the pleural cavity for pleural effusion, and above all for empyema whenever the case was in serious condition.

From Project Gutenberg