Pleurisy
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Inflammation of lung pleura. countable, uncountable
"1829 September, Richard N. Allen, An Essay on Pneumonia Biliosa, Horatio Gates Jameson (editor), The Maryland Medical Recorder, Volume 1, Number 1, page 591, The division of pleurisies now sanctioned by the general language of medical men, is that which arranges them as inflammatory,* bilious and typhoid."
- 2 inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer) wordnet
Example
More examples"Kent was their family doctor; he was not able to come before the evening, and found that the boy had pleurisy in the right side."
Etymology
From Middle English pleuresi, pleresye, that borrowed from Old French pleuresie (French pleurésie), from Late Latin pleurisis, alteration of Latin pleuritis. By surface analysis, pleur- + -isy.
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