Pleurisy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PLEURISY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• inflammation of the pleura
• inflammation of the pleurae, which impairs their lubricating function and causes pain when breathing. It is caused by pneumonia and other diseases of the chest or abdomen.
• inflammation of the membrane covering the lungs
• An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity.
• inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer)

Words related to PLEURISY

pleurisies12 pleuritic13 pleuritis11 plurisie10

How to use PLEURISY in a sentence

• He was labouring under a pleurisy, which is not unfrequent in the mountainous region, at this season.
• He has been suffering for a week past with a severe attack of pneumonia, or bilious pleurisy.
• It was a sharp, definite pain, similar to that of pleurisy, except that it stabbed hotly through the heart itself.
• Going to the little hovel he lives in, found him lying very ill with pleurisy.
• After struggling for some time against ill-health he was struck down by an attack of pleurisy, to which soon was added typhoid fever, and for a time lay at the brink of the grave.
• The comtesse died of pleurisy in 1876, at the age of seventy-one.
• The man who has the pleurisy was blooded and sweated, and we were forced to take off the toes of the young Indian who was frostbitten some time since.
• She had felt a pain in her side all the day, which towards night had become so violent that the doctor was sent for, who had pronounced it pleurisy, and had sent her to bed.
• The mother was suffering with an acute attack of bronchitis and pleurisy.
• The young man died in the most commonplace way of a pleurisy caught as he came out of the theatre.
• I have quite recovered from my pleurisy now and am steadily regaining my strength.
• I have quite recovered from my pleurisy now and am feeling almost as vigorous as before the attack.
• The house was ready and the wedding near at hand when, in riding from Boston to Concord on top of the stage, Charles took a violent cold, which was followed by pleurisy and death.
• In the treatment of pleurisy, this tincture is invaluable.
• The lady’s ailment developed into pleurisy, and she died in a few days, the chorus being again heard in a sweet, plaintive requiem as the spirit was leaving her body.
• I think I caught the sacred fire in Spain at the same time that I caught the pleurisy.
• She was recovering, as the expression goes, from pleurisy.
• Soon afterwards, Garay was seized with a pleurisy, of which he died in four days, leaving Cortes and Father Olmedo his executors.
• Claude Anet, on a botanical excursion, fell a victim to pleurisy, and died, notwithstanding all her care.

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