pleuralgian.

1817 J. M. Good Physiol. Syst. Nosol. 114 (note) Dr. Cullen has regarded pleuralgia, or pleurodyne, as merely symptomatic of some other disease.

1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) I. 671 The last genus of diseases which occurs under the present order, is that which has usually been denominated pleurodyne, for which pleuralgia is here adopted in its stead for the sake of simplicity... This [sc. the presence of fever and inflammation] is the chief feature by which pleuralgia, or ‘stitch in the pleura’, is distinguished from ‘pleuritis, or inflammation of the pleura’.

1853 J. Laurie Elem. Homoeopathic Pract. Physic 823 It is sharp and lancinating, felt most at the moment of inspiration, shortening that act and interrupting it, though in character it may resemble pleuralgia.

1865 Lancet 23 Sept. 342/2 What is called pleurodynia or pleuralgia—neuralgia of the chest-wall.

1901 Progressive Med. 2 239 In these, in addition to the hyperæsthetic and anæsthetic areas being more pronounced, we have the appearance of hysterogenetic zones (cephalalgia, epigastralgia, pleuralgia, sacrodynia).

1890 Cent. Dict. Pleuralgic, pertaining to or affected with pleuralgia.