pleurisy

/ploor-uh-see/US // ˈplʊər ə si //UK // (ˈplʊərɪsɪ) //

胸膜炎,肋膜炎,肺炎

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Pathology.
- : inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.

Tuberculous pleurisy due to direct extension from the lung may give excess of polymorphonuclears owing to mixed infection.
By stopping and stewing in a perfectly airless state-room 292 I seem to have got rid of the pleurisy.
Hippocrates and Galen had advised to bleed largely from the arm on the affected side in pleurisy and pneumonia.
A pleurisy set in on the following day, and soon death was rapidly nearing.
The young man died in the most commonplace way of a pleurisy caught as he came out of the theatre.