pleuretic

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adjective

Of or pertaining to the pleura, the smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax.

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Meanings

adjectivepleuretic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableanatomyOf or pertaining to the pleura, the smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax.

    […] which I expected to have found extremely sizy and glutinous, or indeed coagulated, as it is in pleuretic complaints;

    1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII
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Chicago

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