Word Meanings - PLEUROPNEUMONIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• FATALNESS
  , . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.
• FATALISTIC
  Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
• PLEURISY
  An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity. Pleurisy root. The large tuberous root of a kind of milkweed which is used as a remedy
• FATALITY
  1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. 2. The state of being fatal;
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• PLEURAPOPHYSIS
  One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib. -- Pleu*rap`o*phys"i*al, a. Owen.
• FATALISM
  The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
• PLAGUEFUL
  Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations.
• PLEURA
  pl. of Pleuron.
• FATALLY
  1. In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate. Bentley. 2. In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.
• PLAGUER
  One who plagues or annoys.
• PLAGUELESS
  Free from plagues or the plague.
• FATALIST
  One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
• INFLAMMATION
  A morbid condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
• PNEUMONIA
  Inflammation of the lungs. Note: Catarrhal pneumonia, or Broncho-pneumonia, is inflammation of the lung tissue, associated with catarrh and with marked evidences of inflammation of bronchial membranes, often chronic; -- also called lobular
• FATAL
  1. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. These thing are fatal and necessary. Tillotson. It was fatal to the king to fight for his money. Bacon. 2. Foreboding death or great disaster. That fatal screech owl to
• CATTLE
  Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine. Belted cattle, Black cattle. See under Belted, Black. -- Cattle guard, a trench under a railroad track
• PLEURAL
  Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleuræ, or to the sides of the thorax.
• PLAGUE
  An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague. "A plague upon the people fell."
• PLEURALGIA
  Pain in the side or region of the ribs.
• EPIPLEURAL
  Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra. Owen.
• SUBPLEURAL
  Situated under the pleural membrane.
• ANT-CATTLE
  Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.
• BRONCHO-PNEUMONIA
  Inflammation of the bronchi and lungs; catarrhal pneumonia.
• ARTHROPLEURA
  The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere.
• ENDOPLEURA
  The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.
• PHTHISIPNEUMONIA; PHTHISIPNEUMONY
  Pulmonary consumption.
• PLEUROPNEUMONIA
  Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.
• RHABDOPLEURA
  A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata
• WHITE PLAGUE
  Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.