HOW TO PRONOUNCE
pleurisy
/ˈplʊɹəsi/
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What does pleurisy mean?
noun
- Inflammation of lung pleura.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈplʊɹəsi/
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There are few instances of inflammation of the lungs, or pneumonia, that do not ultimately become connected with or terminate in pleurisy.
My distemper was a pleurisy, which very nearly carried me off.
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An old colored woman--a grandmother--who had just been released from one of the hospitals where she had been treated for a long time for pleurisy, asked for a garden.
The shock and soreness resulting from the operation render the animal highly susceptible to pleurisy and pneumonia.
Muller gives a report of an arrow-wound of the lung which was productive of pleurisy but which was followed by recovery.