visceral pleura

The inner serous membrane of the pulmonary pleural. The visceral pleura lines the lungs. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the visceral pleura is

The inner serous membrane of the pulmonary pleural. The visceral pleura lines the lungs. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the human body.

Where the visceral pleura is

It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the respiratory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the visceral pleura connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of lung and pleura.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the visceral 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 pleura pulmonalis, pleura visceralis, pleura visceralis (pulmonalis), pulmonary visceral pleura, lung mesothelium and lung pleura, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002401, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: lung and pleura.
• A kind of: visceral serous membrane.
• Attaches to: lung parenchyma.
• Adjacent to: lung and pleural cavity.
• contributes to morphology of: pleura.

Questions

Where is the visceral pleura?

It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the respiratory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the visceral pleura connect to?

Part of: lung and pleura.

Is the visceral pleura the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.