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Definition of Pleuritic
1. a. Of or pertaining to pleurisy; as, pleuritic symptoms.
Definition of Pleuritic
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with pleurisy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pleuritic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Pleuritic
1. Pertaining to pleurisy. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleuritic
Literary usage of Pleuritic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
"pleuritic friction may be present and loud without giving rise to any pain. ...
In children friction sounds and pleuritic pain are much less common than in ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1893)
"Treatment of pleuritic Effusion.—Dr. Alfred Sheen, of Cardiff, in a paper on the
diagnosis and treatment of pleural effusions, critically examines the ..."
3. A Handbook of Physical Diagnosis: Comprising the Throat, Thorax, and Abdomen by Paul Guttmann (1880)
"pleuritic friction is always wanting, therefore, in cases of transudation ...
pleuritic friction in the neighborhood of the heart is apt to be mistaken for ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1886)
"He had demonstrated that the upper level of pleuritic effusions was not a horizontal
plane. Certain clinical features had led them to suspect this. ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1885)
"... on right side in infra-scapular pleuritic rales without marked dulness, while
at apex of same side there is entire absence of breath-sounds, ..."
6. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1889)
"... to treat cases of considerable pleuritic effusion by tapping the pleural cavity
... from the diet has been advocated as curative of pleuritic effusion, ..."
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