Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In arthropods, of or pertaining to a pleurite; pleural, as a segment of a somite.
- In entomology, specifically, lateral or pleural and abdominal; of or pertaining to a pleurite.
- Pertaining to or suffering from pleurisy: as, pleuritic symptoms or affections; a pleuritic patient.
- Causing or bringing pleurisy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to pleurisy.
- adjective Suffering from pleurisy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with
pleurisy
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Examples
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In pleuritic affections, when the disease is not purged off in fourteen days, it usually terminates in empyema.
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If it be quinsy or any other of the pleuritic affections, purge with electuaries; but if the patient be weaker, or if you abstract more blood, you may administer a clyster every third day, until he be out of danger, and enjoin total abstinence if necessary.
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The third complained of a pleuritic stitch, and spitting of blood, for which Doctor
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After the third sterilisation cool to 42° C. and add to each tube 3 c.c. of sterile hydrocele fluid, ascitic fluid or pleuritic effusion
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Collect ascitic, pleuritic, or hydrocele fluid in sterile flasks and allow to stand in the ice-chest for twelve hours to sediment.
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The course to recovery was sometimes broken by signs of slight pleuritic inflammation, which, as affecting the amount of effusion, will be spoken of under the heading of symptoms.
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Collect a quantity of pleuritic effusion, if such is present, in a pipette for further examination later.
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Thin serous membrane in mammals that envelops each lung and folds back to make a lining for the chest cavity. pleuritic (pleurisy)
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Collect ascitic fluid (pleuritic fluid, hydrocele fluid, etc.), by aspiration directly into sterile flasks, under strictly aseptic precautions.
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After the third sterilisation cool the tubes to 42°C., and add to each 3 c.c. of sterile hydrocele fluid, ascitic fluid, or pleuritic effusion (previously sterilised, if necessary, by the fractional method); allow the tubes to solidify in a sloping position.
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