Tom died of pleurisy.
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Pleurisy
//ˈplʊəɹɪsi//
Synonyms for "pleurisy" (65 found)
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25 translations across 21 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- плеврит noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 胸膜炎 noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Czech
1 entries- zánět pohrudnice noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Dutch
1 entries- pleuris noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Finnish
1 entries- keuhkopussintulehdus noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
French
1 entries- pleurésie noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
German
1 entries- Brustfellentzündung noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Greek
1 entries- πλευρίτιδα noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Italian
1 entries- pleurite noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Japanese
1 entries- 胸膜炎 noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Kazakh
1 entries- плеврит noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Mongolian
2 entries- уушгины гялтангийн үрэвсэл noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
- цээжийн хальсан үрэвсэл noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Māori
2 entries- kiriuhi pūkahu kakā noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
- mate kiriuhi pūkahu kakā noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Norman
1 entries- plieurêsie noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Norwegian
1 entries- pleuritt noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Portuguese
2 entries- pleurisia noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
- pleurite noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Russian
1 entries- плеври́т noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Spanish
1 entries- pleuresía noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Swedish
2 entries- lungsäcksinflammation noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
- pleurit noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Volapük
1 entries- plöraflamat noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Walloon
1 entries- plurizeye noun (inflammation of lung pleura)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
She has pleurisy.
Source: tatoeba (10803380)
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.
Source: tatoeba (11960074)
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.
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