Lungs and Pleura

Question 1

Which pleura lines thoracic walls and cavities?

Answer 1

Parietal pleura

Question 2

What is visceral pleura

Answer 2

Serious membrane covering surface of the lungs, dipping into fissures between lobes

Question 3

Pleural cavity occurs between which serous membranes if the lungs?

Answer 3

Visceral and parietal pleura

Question 4

What are the names of the two fissures of the right lung?

Answer 4

Transverse fissure and oblique fissure

Question 5

How many lobes does the right lung contain?

Answer 5

3

Question 6

How many lobes does that left lung contain?

Answer 6

2

Question 7

What is the function of the costodiaphragmatic recess?

Answer 7

Space in pleural cavity that lungs can expand into during forced inspiration.

Question 8

What normally occupies the costodiaphragmatic cavity?

Answer 8

Serous parietal fluid

Question 9

If an injury were to occur above T1 or below T12, what would be the consequence?

Answer 9

Pneumothorax or haemothorax

Question 10

What is pneumothorax?

Answer 10

Air in the interpleural cavity

Question 11

What is haemothorax?

Answer 11

Blood in the interpleural cavity

Question 12

What is chylothorax?

Answer 12

Lymph in the interpleural cavity

Question 13

What is empyema?

Answer 13

Pus in the interpleural cavity

Question 14

Where is a non emergency chest drain inserted?

Answer 14

Upper boarder of 5th intercostal rib in mid-axillary line

Question 15

Why is a non emergency chest drain inserted above the upper boarder the 5th intercostal rib?

Answer 15

To avoid the intercostal vessel and nerve

Question 16

What nerve supplies the visceral pleura?
A) vagus nerve
B) intercostal nerve
C) pleural nerve

Answer 16

A

Question 17

What is the mediastinum?

Answer 17

Central compartment of thoracic cavity