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pleuretic en · ADJ

Meanings

(not-comparable) Of 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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