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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
pleuralgia is a noun meaning "pain in the chest caused by inflammation of the muscles between the ribs". It carries one recorded sense.
pain in the chest caused by inflammation of the muscles between the ribs
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pleuralgia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.