Pleuritis

(plu-ri' -lis). Inflammation of a pleura. See Pleurisy . P. deformans, chronic inflammation with great thickening and induration of the pleura, usually accompanying fibroid pneumonia. P. duplicata, bilateral pleurisy. P. humid a, pleurisy with effusion. P. incapsulata. Synonym of Pleurisy, Encysted. P. pulsans, a form that usually, but not always, occurs in chronic cases, and in which the fluid is purulent. The pulsation is generally universal. It occurs more frequently among men, and between the ages of twenty and thirty years. It may be confounded with aneurysm. Its seat, however, is different; there is no bruit; it grows smaller under pre ure and larger after coughing. P. sicca, dry pleurisy. P. spuria. Synonym of Pleurodynia. P. vera, simple pleurisy without complication.