† parapleuritisn.
Medicine. Obsolete. rare.
Pleurodynia or mild pleuritis.
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pleurodyne1772
pleurodynia1802
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parapleuritis1803
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1803 W. C. Brown tr. G. Borsieri de Kanifeld Inst. Pract. Med. V. 181 (heading) Parapleuritis.
1803 W. C. Brown tr. G. Borsieri de Kanifeld Inst. Pract. Med. V. 183 This affection of the breast has been named by Zeuianu, a physician of considerable celebrity of Verona,..parapleuritis, which, however, as he himself remarks, more frequently consists merely in a pain of the side, left by the bastard pleurisy.
1893 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Parapleuritis, a slight degree of pleuritis; also, applied to pleurodynia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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