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Webster 1913 Edition
Pleurisy
Pleu′ri-sy
,Noun.
[F.
pleurésie
, L. pleurisis
, pleuritis
, Gr πλευρῖτισ
(sc. νόσος
), fr. πλευρά
rib, side.] (Med.)
An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity.
Pleurisy root
. (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 1828 Edition
Pleurisy
PLEU'RISY
,Noun.