Diaphragmatic pleura

Diaphragmatic pleura
Diaphragmatic pleura
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Front view of thorax, showing the relations of the pleuræ and lungs to the chest wall. Pleura in blue; lungs in purple.
Latin p. diaphragmatica
Gray's subject #238 1088

Different portions of the parietal pleura have received special names which indicate their position: that clothing the convex surface of the diaphragm is the diaphragmatic pleura. It, as well as the mediastinal pleura, is innervated by the phrenic nerve.

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