Definition of Pleurisies

1. Noun. (plural of pleurisy) ¹

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Definition of Pleurisies

1. pleurisy [n] - See also: pleurisy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleurisies

pleural stripe
pleural villi
pleuralgia
pleuralgias
pleurant
pleurants
pleurapophyses
pleurapophysial
pleurapophysis
pleuras
pleurectomy
pleurenchyma
pleuretic
pleuric
pleuripotent
pleurisies (current term)
pleurisy
pleurisy root
pleurisy with effusion
pleurite
pleuritic
pleuritic pneumonia
pleuritic rub
pleuritical
pleuritick
pleuritides
pleuritis
pleuritogenous
pleuro-
pleurobranch

Literary usage of Pleurisies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Medical Treatment Or Clinical Therapeutics by Isaac Burney Yeo, Raymond Henry Payne Crawfurd, Edward Farquhar Buzzard (1909)
"Classification of pleurisies according to their Causation, ... And it is necessary to examine briefly the'classification of pleurisies, both etiological and ..."

2. Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence by Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin (1835)
"THAT pleurisies are only on the left side, is a popular tenet not only absurd but dangerous: from the misapprehension hereof men omitting the opportunity of ..."

3. Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Its Complications, with Special Reference to by Sherman Grant Bonney (1910)
"CHAPTER LII ETIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF TUBERCULOUS pleurisies IN dealing with the pleural complications of pulmonary tuberculosis, it is well to discriminate ..."

4. Boylston Prize Dissertations for the Years 1836 and 1837 by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1838)
"Partial pleurisies. In some of these cases it must be granted that the physical signs are insufficient to decide the diagnosis. Laennec, who passes very ..."

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