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ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.

ered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.

Pleural.

An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity. Pleurisy root. (Bot.) (a) The large tuberous root of a kind of milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) which is used as a remedy for pleuritic and other diseases. (b) The plant itself…

form denoting relation to a side; specif., connection with, or situation in or near, the pleura; as, pleuroperitoneum.

Of or pertaining to the pleura and pericardium.

Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.

The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.

Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.

An order of Bryozoa of which Rhabdopleura is the type. See Rhabdopleura.

n order of marine Bryozoa, having a bilobed lophophore and an axial cord. The genus Rhabdopleura is the type. Called also Podostomata. See Rhabdopleura.

Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleural cavity.

An order of lowly organized Mollusca belonging to the Isopleura. A narrow groove takes the place of the foot of other gastropods.

The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura.

ng of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema.

The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision.