Horizontal fissure of right lung

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Horizontal fissure of right lung
Fissure not labeled, but visible at right, between #3 and #4.
Mediastinal surface of right lung. (Fissure visible at left.)
Latin	fissura horizontalis pulmonis dextri
Dorlands/Elsevier	f_08/12365532

The horizontal fissure of right lung (or transverse fissure) is a fissure separating the superior lobe from the middle lobe.

The left lung has no middle lobe, so there is no horizontal fissure on that lung.

The Horizontal fissure usually extends from the oblique fissure along the border of the 4th rib.

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Anatomy of lungs.

[edit] See also

• Oblique fissure (present on both lungs)

[edit] External links

• transverse+fissure+of+the+right+lung at eMedicine Dictionary
• Atlas of anatomy at UMich lung_sup_med - "Dissection of thorax, anterior view"

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