| pleuritic rub | A friction sound produced by the rubbing together of the roughened surfaces of the costal and visceral pleurae. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| pleuritical | <medicine> Of or pertaining to pleurisy; as, pleuritic symptoms. Suffering from pleurisy. Origin: L. Pleuriticus, Gr., cf. F. Pleuretique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pleuritis | <medicine> Pleurisy. Origin: L. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pleuritogenous | Tending to produce pleurisy. Origin: G. Pleuritis, pleurisy, + genesis, origin (05 Mar 2000) |
| pleuro- | Rib, side, pleura. Origin: G. Pleura; a rib, the side (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pleurobrachia | Small free swimming marine organism, member of the Phylum Ctenophora. Roughly spherical and transparent with most of the body made up from transparent jelly like material. The animal has two long tentacles for catching prey and swim by means of 8 rows of comb plates (made of fused cilia) that run along the body. (18 Nov 1997) |
| pleurobranch | <zoology> Any one of the gills of a crustacean that is attached to the side of the thorax. See: Pleuro-, and Branchia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pleurobranchia | Origin: NL. <zoology> Same as Pleurobranch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pleurocarp | <botany> Any pleurocarpic moss. Origin: Pleuro- + Gr. Fruit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pleurocarpous | <botany> Side-fruited; said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; opposed to acrocarpous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pleurocele | Synonym: pneumonocele. Origin: pleuro-+ G. Kele, hernia (05 Mar 2000) |
| pleurocentesis | Synonym: thoracentesis. Origin: pleuro-+ G. Kentesis, puncture (05 Mar 2000) |
| pleurocentrum | <anatomy> One of the lateral elements in the centra of the vertebrae in some fossil batrachians. Origin: NL. See Pleuro-, and Centrum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pleuroclysis | Washing out of the pleural cavity. Origin: pleuro-+ G. Klysis, a washing out (05 Mar 2000) |
| pleurodeles | A genus of aquatic newts belonging to the family salamandridae and sometimes referred to as "spiny" tritons. There are two species p. Waltlii and p. Poireti. P. Waltlii is commonly used in the laboratory. Since this genus adapts to aquarium living, it is easy to maintain in laboratories. (12 Dec 1998) |