Talk:Pleural cavity

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An older term, pleurisy, is sometimes encountered: it indicated an inflammation of the pleura, especially one causing painful respiration, and could be provoked by a variety of infectious and non-infectious causes.

If this is an older term, what's the current term? I'll try to find out myself and come back to this. Jenks 10:17, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Pleuritis. This is rarely primary but more often associated with pneumonias. Pleuritic chest pain is the breathing-related pain that signifies involvement of the pleura; it is seen in infections and pulmonary embolism. JFW | T@lk 11:23, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Intrapleural

I redirected Intrapleural here. The definition I got from searching was that it means "within the pleural cavity". I don't know if it should be mentioned the article or not. -- Kjkolb 09:23, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1 lung, 1 pleura

I got the sense this article is saying that each lung has two pleurae, a visceral pleura and a parietal pleura. I don't think this is the case. Each lung has 1 continuous pleura folded upon itself to create a visceral part/layer against the lung known as the visceral pleura, and a parietal part/layer against the thoracic cavity wall known as the parietal pleura. I would understand this from Dorland's dictionary definition and Gray's Anatomy online description. As well, conveying there is two pleurae for each lung belies the fact that the pleura of each lung is continuous, which is one of the most difficult things about it to understand (but also the crux of understanding the pleural cavity as a potential space), I think. Pleurae should only be used to reference the right and left pleura together, as they are completely separate. I'm putting this here for discussion, as well before editing the article I'd have to find a way to clearly convey the continuous nature of each pleura (Gray says "The two layers are continuous with one another around and below the root of the lung").Jauntymcd 23:51, 12 April 2007 (UTC)