pleurisy

1. 1.

   inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer)

   Broaderinflammatory disease

   Narrowerpurulent pleurisypleuropneumonia

Other forms of pleurisy

plural

pleurisies·

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.

Questions about pleurisy

What does pleurisy mean?

pleurisy means "inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer)".

How many syllables are in pleurisy?

pleurisy has 3 syllables: pleur-i-sy. The stress falls on "pleur". In IPA it is /ˈplʊɹəsi/.

Is pleurisy a common word?

pleurisy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.