OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 24359

pleurisy

/ˈplʊəɹɪsi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pleuresía
Inflammation of lung pleura.
1829 September, Richard N. Allen, An Essay on Pneumonia Biliosa, Horatio Gates Jameson (editor), The Maryland Medical Recorder, Volume 1, Number 1, page 591, The division of pleuri…
And the dope often gave him a painful case of pleurisy if he smoked it for more than two straight days of heavy continuous smoking[…]
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