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pleuropulmonary

pleuropulmonary adjective: relating to the pleura and the lungs.

Adjective

pleuropulmonary (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the pleura and the lungs
    • The DICER1 familial tumour susceptibility syndrome confers an increased risk most commonly for pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) but also ovarian sex cord-stromal tumours; Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor [SLCT], juvenile granulosa cell tumour [JGCT] and gynandroblastomas.2015 July 3, Katrina Anna Mason et al., “Nasal Chondromesenchymal Hamartoma (NCMH): a systematic review of the literature with a new case report”, in Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery...

Origin of pleuropulmonary

From pleuro- + pulmonary.

Questions about pleuropulmonary

What does pleuropulmonary mean?
Pleuropulmonary means relating to the pleura and the lungs.
What part of speech is pleuropulmonary?
Pleuropulmonary is an adjective.

Words near pleuropulmonary in the dictionary

  1. pleuropneumonia
  2. pleuropneumonia-like organism
  3. pleuropneumoniae
  4. pleuropneumonic
  5. pleuroproctic
  6. pleuropulmonary
  7. pleurorhizal
  8. pleurorhizous
  9. pleurorhynchous
  10. pleurosaur
  11. pleurosaurid

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