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n. Inflammation of the pleura, usually occurring as a complication of a disease such as pneumonia, accompanied by accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity, chills, fever, and painful breathing and coughing.

n. Inflammation of lung pleura.

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

n. Inflammation of the pleura.

n. inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer)

"If man does not shun and turn away from evils as sins, therefore, the external and at the same time the internal of his thought and will are infected and destroyed, comparatively as the pleura is by the disease in it called pleurisy, of which the body dies."

inflammatory disease   

dry pleurisy    fibrinous pleurisy    serous pleurisy    humid pleurisy    typhoid pleurisy   

purulent pleurisy    pleuropneumonia   

pleuritic   

bronchitis    emphysema    dysentery    rheumatism    catarrh    indigestion    asthma    toothache    gonorrhea    apoplexy