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Pleura
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ PLEURA  id+ | RIB |
          biol> THE PLEURA IS A MEMBRANE
  ATTACHED TO THE RIBS and to THE LUNGS
  gr PLEURON = RIBS         see> BREATH
  note sug> COSTAL  sug> COAST  sug> COAST SIDE
  med> denotes an INFLAMMATION WHICH OFTEN CAUSES
       PAIN IN THE SIDE or COSTAL DISCOMFORT
  THE PLEURA IS A MEMBRANE LINING
  THE THORACCIC CAVITY or RIBS and
  THE LUNGS AND CREATING A VIRTUAL SPACE
  BETWEEN THE CHEST WALL AND
  THE LUNG or PULMONARY TISSUES    see> PULMO
  WHEN LUNGS ARE PUNCTURED
  THE PLEURAL CAVITY MAY FILL WITH AIR
  as in PNEUMOTHORAX       see> PNEUMO
  INFLAMMATION or PLEURISY MAY FILL
  THE CAVITY WITH FLUID    sug> PLEURITIS
  biol> PLEURODONT are a
        TYPE OF TEETH in some LIZARDS
 
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