pleura in dogs

The invaginated serous membrane that surrounds the lungs (the visceral portion) and lines the walls of the pleural cavity (parietal portion). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the pleura is

The invaginated serous membrane that surrounds the lungs (the visceral portion) and lines the walls of the pleural cavity (parietal portion). The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the dog.

Where the pleura is

It sits within the respiratory system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the pleura connects to

The atlas records 12 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity, lower respiratory tract and respiratory system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the pleura. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as wall of pleural sac, pleura and pleural tissue. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000977, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical entity, lower respiratory tract and respiratory system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, organ and serous membrane.
• contributes to morphology of: respiratory system, parietal pleura and visceral pleura.
• contains: parietal pleura and visceral pleura.
• Develops from: lateral plate mesoderm.

Questions

Where is the pleura?

It sits within the respiratory system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the pleura connect to?

Part of: anatomical entity, lower respiratory tract and respiratory system.

Is the pleura the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.