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Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleuræ, or to the sides of the thorax.

Pain in the side or region of the ribs.

lement in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib. -- Pleu*rap`o*phys"i*al, a. Owen.

A tissue consisting of long and slender tubular cells, of which wood is mainly composed.

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…

Same as Pleuron.

Of or pertaining to pleurisy; as, pleuritic symptoms.

Pleurisy.

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

A genus of ctenophores having an ovate body and two long plumose tentacles.

Any one of the gills of a crustacean that is attached to the side of the thorax.

Same as Pleurobranch.

Any pleurocarpic moss.

Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to Ant: acrocarpous.

One of the lateral elements in the centra of the vertebræ in some fossil batrachians.

A group of fresh-water turtles in which the neck can not be retracted, but is bent to one side, for protection. The matamata is an example.

Any lizard having pleurodont teeth.

A painful affection of the side, simulating pleurisy, usually due to rheumatism.

One of the sides of an animal.