Usually means: Membrane covering lungs and chest.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. pleura: Merriam-Webster
  2. pleura, pleura: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pleura, pleura: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pleura: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pleura: Vocabulary.com
  6. pleura: Wordnik
  7. pleura: Wiktionary
  8. pleura: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pleura: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pleura: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. pleura: Dictionary.com
  12. Pleura: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Pleura: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. pleura: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. pleura: Rhymezone
  16. Pleura: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. pleura: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. pleura, pleura-: MyWord.info
  19. pleura: FreeDictionary.org
  20. pleura: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. pleura: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pleura: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. pleura: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pleura: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Pleura: Merck Manuals
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Pleura: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  9. pleura: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  10. pleura: Medical dictionary
  11. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  12. Pleura: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See pleurae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pleura)

noun:  (anatomy) Each of a pair of smooth serous membranes which line the thorax and envelop the lungs in humans and other mammals.
noun:  (zootomy) A lateral part in an animal body or structure.

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