Landmark · Visceral systems
Oblique fissure of left lung
Fissura obliqua pulmonis sinistri
- System
- Visceral systems
- Regions
- Trunk, Thorax
- Side
- Left
- Landmark on
- Inferior lobe of left lung
DescriptionUnreviewed
The left lung is divided into two lobes by an oblique fissure which is closely aligned with the oblique fissure in the right lung.
It separates the superior lobe of left lung and inferior lobe of left lung.
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Names
- Latin
- Fissura obliqua pulmonis sinistri
- English
- Oblique fissure of left lung
- French
- Scissure oblique du poumon gauche
- Spanish
- Fisura oblicua del pulmón izquierdo
- Portuguese
- Fissura oblíqua do pulmão esquerdo