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PLEURAL CAVITY

Dictionary entry overview: What does pleural cavity mean?

• PLEURAL CAVITY (noun)
The noun PLEURAL CAVITY has 1 sense:

1. the cavity in the thorax that contains the lungs and heart

Familiarity information: PLEURAL CAVITY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PLEURAL CAVITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The cavity in the thorax that contains the lungs and heart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("pleural cavity" is a kind of...):

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)

Meronyms (parts of "pleural cavity"):

pleura (the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest)

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