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US
/ˈpɫʊɹəsi/
]
[ UK /plˈɜːɹəsi/ ]
[ UK /plˈɜːɹəsi/ ]
NOUN
- inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer)
How To Use pleurisy In A Sentence
- The plague, pneumonia, pleurisy, tuberculosis, smallpox, scurvy, the black lung, the yeasty oesophagus, the mildewed mouth; call it what you want just don't call it the common cold.
- Besides the fever, he suffered from a pain in the side, which the Greeks call pleurisy; but he still persisted in fasting, and in keeping up his strength only by draughts taken at very long intervals. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
- Hence persons laboring under pneumonia or pleurisy are not necessarily empyemics, but when these diseases progress to such a point that blood and sanies are expectorated and the lung is infected, that is when the ulceration of the lungs fails to heal and corruption and infection occur, the disease becomes empima, and is with difficulty, or never cured. Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
- Illustration from Gray's Anatomy courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Pleurisy, also known as pleuritis, is the inflammation of the disease from H1N1, evidence suggests. WN.com - Articles related to US pigs may have tested positive for H1N1
- He learned to recognize pneumonia, bronchiectasis, pleurisy, emphysema, pneumothorax, phthisis, and other lung diseases from the sounds he heard with his stethoscope.
- The plague, pneumonia, pleurisy, tuberculosis, smallpox, scurvy, the black lung, the yeasty oesophagus, the mildewed mouth; call it what you want just don't call it the common cold.
- Most cases are asymptomatic, but some present with hemoptysis, cough, chest pain, dyspnea, and pleurisy.
- Most cases are asymptomatic, but some present with hemoptysis, cough, chest pain, dyspnea, and pleurisy.
- This postulate gives us the key to the pain-muscular phenomena of peritonitis, pleurisy, cystitis, cholecystitis, etc., as well as to the pain-muscular phenomena in obstructions of the hollow viscera. The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers
- A linctus for pneumonia: Galbanum and pine-fruit in Attic honey; and southernwood in oxymel; make a decoction of pepper and black hellebore, and give it in cases of pleurisy attended with violent pain at the commencement. On Regimen In Acute Diseases