purulent pleurisy

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   a collection of pus in the lung cavity

   Broaderpleurisyempyema

Questions about purulent pleurisy

What does purulent pleurisy mean?

purulent pleurisy means "a collection of pus in the lung cavity".

Is purulent pleurisy a common word?

purulent pleurisy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.