• Pleuretic

    Full definition of pleuretic

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    pleuretic

    1. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the pleura, the smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax.
      • Fielding Tom Jones|VII|xiii... which I expected to have found extremely sizy and glutinous, or indeed coagulated, as it is in pleuretic complaints;

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