Definition of pleurisy

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Pleurisy (n.) An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity..

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Pleurodynia :: Pleurodynia (n.) A painful affection of the side, simulating pleurisy, usually due to rheumatism..
Pleurisy :: Pleurisy (n.) An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity..
Pleuropneumonia :: Pleuropneumonia (n.) Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle..
Pleuritical :: Pleuritical (a.) Of or pertaining to pleurisy; as, pleuritic symptoms..
Egophony :: Egophony (n.) The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion..
Pleuritis :: Pleuritis (n.) Pleurisy.
Pleuritical :: Pleuritical (a.) Suffering from pleurisy.
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