"Pleura" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at him sympathetically, and he coughed twice. "You are suffering," she said. "Lord Frederic, you really must not urge him to expose himself. Have you a pain here?" she inquired, touching herself in the region of the pleura. ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) • Various
... blood vessels and muscles, fascia and lymphatics, superior cervical ganglion and other nerves of the neck, as they affect vitality in diseases. Then we pass on to third division, with diseases of lung, heart, pericardium, and pleura, with all parts of chest. Then abdomen, liver, stomach and bowels, and all organs with resisting power of diaphragm. Fifth, pelvis, with its great supply of nerves, blood and other fluids. These give us cause to halt and seat the mind for a long season ...
— Philosophy of Osteopathy • Andrew T. Still
... Pleura of one or both lungs, generally confined to one side. It is known by sharp pain in the side of the chest, increased by taking a long breath, or coughing, or by pressing between the ribs. The cough is dry and painful, ...
— An Epitome of Homeopathic Healing Art - Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time • B. L. Hill
... close of the first century. He gives the number of bones as 252 instead of 232. The Talmudists knew the origin of the spinal cord at the foramen magnum and its form of termination; they described the oesophagus as being composed of two coats; they speak of the pleura as the double covering of the lungs; and mention the special coat of fat about the kidneys. They had made progress in obstetrics; described monstrosities and congenital deformities; practised version, evisceration, and Caesarian section upon the ...
— Old-Time Makers of Medicine • James J. Walsh
... derived 'plurisy' from pluris. This, even with the "small Latin and less Greek", which Ben Jonson allows him, he scarcely would have done, had the word presented itself in that form, which by right of its descent from {Greek: pleura} (being a pain, stitch, or sickness in the side) it ought to have possessed. Those who for 'crucible' wrote 'chrysoble' (Jeremy Taylor does so) must evidently have done this under the assumption that the Greek for gold, and not the Latin for ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench |
