Pleura-pericardium and peritoneum

State these terms: pleura, pericardium and peritoneum?

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Pleura is the membrane which envelops the lungs and the interior  wall of the chest; pericardium is membrane which covers heart; whereas peritoneum is membrane which covers most of the organs of the gastrointestinal tract and portion of the abdominal cavity. All these membranes restrict coeloms (internal cavities).

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