pleurisy : Idioms & Phrases

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diaphragmatic pleurisy

  • noun an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)
    myosis; Bornholm disease; epidemic pleurodynia; epidemic myalgia.
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Pleurisy root

  • noun erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers
    butterfly weed; Indian paintbrush; chigger flower; tuber root; chiggerflower; Asclepias tuberosa; orange milkweed.
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  • . (Bot.) (a) The large tuberous root of a kind of milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) which is used as a remedy for pleuritic and other diseases . (b) The plant itself, which has deep orange-colored flowers; called also butterfly weed.
Webster 1913

purulent pleurisy

  • noun a collection of pus in the lung cavity
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