pleural

From pleura + -al.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈplʊə.ɹəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈplʊɹ.əl/
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹəl
• Homophone: plural

pleural (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or affecting the pleura, or the sides of the thorax.
   • 2015 May 21, Vincenzo Basile et al., “Lung ultrasound: a useful tool in diagnosis and management of bronchiolitis”, in BMC Pediatrics‎^[1], volume 15, →DOI:

     The areas of lung dysventilation with an absence of alveolar air are visualized in the form of consolidations adjacent to the pleural line.

2. Thin and transparent.

pleural (plural pleurals)

1. (zoology) An internal segment of the turtle carapace.

• “pleural”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “pleural”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

pleural (feminine pleurale, masculine plural pleuraux, feminine plural pleurales)

1. pleural

• “pleural”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from French pleural.

pleural m or n (feminine singular pleurală, masculine plural pleurali, feminine/neuter plural pleurale)

1. pleural

From pleura +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /pleuˈɾal/ [pleu̯ˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pleu‧ral

pleural m or f (masculine and feminine plural pleurales)

1. pleural

• “pleural”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025