pleurisy (ploʻrisi)

[Formerly also plurisy, partly a ociated (as in the equiv. ML. plurior, pluritas, plethora) with L. plus (gen. pluris ), more, as if implying a plethora of blood; The Pleurisie stabs him with desperate foyl Beneath the ribs, where scalding blood doth boyl. plied to the lateral limb-bearing section of an arthromere, between the sternite and the tergite. See cuts under Brachyura and Trilobita. -4. Especially, in entom., lateral and thoracic: as, a pleural sclerite; a pleural segment of a thoracic somite. - Pleural facet of the movable pleura of a crustacean, the anterior part of a pleuron which is overlapped by the preceding pleuron in flexion of the body. - Pleural spine, a spine connected with a pleuroid. G. Baur.