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An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity.

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  1. n. An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity.
  2. n. inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer)
  3. 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.
  4. An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever,pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into thepleural cavity. Pleurisy root. (Bot.) (a) The large tuberous root ofa kind of milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) which is used as a remedy forpleuritic and other diseases. (b) The plant itself, which has deeporange-colored flowers; -- called also butterfly weed.
  5. n:100 n. inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer)