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Inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer)
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pleurisy
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Wikipedia
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Pleurisy (also known as pleuritis ) is an inflammation of the pleurae , the membranes of the pleural cavity surrounding the lungs . There are many possible causes of pleurisy but viral infections spreading from the lungs to the pleural cavity are the most ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Camp conditions were very poor, Thompson said, adding that he developed pneumonia, followed by pleurisy . ▪ He started with pleurisy which turned into pneumonia and because he wasn't a strong man it carried him off. ▪ The early ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pleurisy \Pleu"ri*sy\, n. [F. pleur['e]sie, L. pleurisis, pleuritis, Gr pleyri^tis (sc. no`sos), fr. pleyra` rib, side.] (Med.) An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French pleurisie (13c., Modern French pleurésie ) and directly from Late Latin pleurisis "pleurisy," alteration of Latin pleuritis "pain in the side," from Greek pleuritis , from pleura "side of the body, rib," of unknown origin. Spelling ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) inflammation of lung pleura.
Usage examples of pleurisy.
The linguist and plant collector Augustus Margary survived toothache, rheumatism, pleurisy, and dysentery while sailing the Yangtze, only to be murdered when he completed his mission and travelled beyond Bhamo, in Burma.
Subsequently pleurisy, pneumonia, or even pus in the pleural cavity often result.
Sharp, shooting, lancinating pains occur in inflammation of the serous tissues, as in pleurisy.
I pitied the poor patient who could not venture to allude to his colic or his pleurisy until his physician was tipsy.
Polydore Virgil delivereth that Pleurisies were rare in England, who lived but in the days of Henry the Eighth.
But I was quite unprepared for the little biographies of doom that ran next to each name and date, column after column, page after page: apoplexies, dropsies, pleurisies, spotted fevers, bloody fluxes, 'murthers', starvations, plagues, poisonings, suicides – and so forth, an endless catalogue of long-forgotten tragedies.
It promotes perspiration without producing any excitement in the system, so is of value in pleurisy, typhus fever and other inflammatory diseases.