Word.ws English Dictionary

plurisie

plurisie is the obsolete form of pleurisy.

Meaning of pleurisy

Noun

pleurisy (countable and uncountable, plural pleurisies)

  1. Inflammation of lung pleura.
    • The division of pleurisies now sanctioned by the general language of medical men, is that which arranges them as inflammatory,* bilious and typhoid.1829 September, Richard N. Allen, An Essay on Pneumonia Biliosa, Horatio Gates Jameson (editor), The Maryland Medical Recorder, Volume 1, Number 1, page 591
    Synonyms:
    pleuritis

Forms of plurisie

pluralplurisies

Questions about plurisie

What is plurisie the obsolete form of?
Plurisie is the obsolete form of pleurisy.

Words near plurisie in the dictionary

  1. pluriseptate
  2. plurisexual
  3. plurisexualities
  4. plurisexuality
  5. plurisexuals
  6. plurisie
  7. plurisies
  8. plurisignification
  9. plurisignifications
  10. plurisignified
  11. plurisignifies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: plurisie (page history and authors); pleurisy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “plurisie.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/plurisie. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.