See Also: Pleurisy(medicine)
pleurisy(dictionary)
Pleurisy(health)
wet pleurisy(medicine)
pleurisy(dictionary)
dry pleurisy(medicine)
diaphragmatic pleurisy(medicine)
pulmonary pleurisy(medicine)
purulent pleurisy(medicine)
sacculated pleurisy(medicine)

pleurisy (iou)



pleurisy noun. Also plurisy. LME.
[Old French pleurisie (mod. pleuresie) from late Latin pleurisis alt. of earlier Latin, Greek PLEURITIS.]
Medicine. Inflammation of the pleurae, with impairment of the lubricating function and pain on breathing, associated with disease of the chest or abdomen, esp. pneumonia. Formerly also, an instance of this. LME.
fig. Unhealthy excess. M16-E18.
Comb.: pleurisy-root N. Amer. the butterfly-weed, Asclepias tuberosa; its root, a reputed remedy for pleurisy.
? Sense 2 and forms in plu- arise partly from a mistaken derivation from the stem of PLURAL adjective.