The visceral pleura

• This layer of pleura develops from the splanchnopleura.
• It covers the lung closely, and is adherent to all its surfaces, dipping into the fissures,
• Provides lungs with a smooth , slippery surface, which enables them to move freely on parietal pleura.

Blood supply lymphatic drainage

• Arterial supply of the visceral pleura is from the bronchial arteries, branches of the thoracic aorta.
• Veins of the visceral pleura drain into the pulmonary veins.
• Numerous lymphatics drain into bronchopulmonary nodes.

Innervation

• Predominantly general visceral efferent, GVE (autonomic).
• No nerves of general sensitisation are known to enter the visceral pleura.