Word Meanings - PLEURAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleuræ, or to the sides of the thorax.
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- SIDESADDLE
A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia. - PLEURENCHYMA
A tissue consisting of long and slender tubular cells, of which wood is mainly composed. - PLEUROPERITONEUM
The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum - THORAX
The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebræ, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest. Note: In - PLEURISY
An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity. Pleurisy root. The large tuberous root of a kind of milkweed which is used as a remedy - PLEURODERES
A group of fresh-water turtles in which the neck can not be retracted, but is bent to one side, for protection. The matamata is an example. - PLEURODYNIA
A painful affection of the side, simulating pleurisy, usually due to rheumatism. - PLEURIC
Pleural. - PLEURO-
A combining form denoting relation to a side; specif., connection with, or situation in or near, the pleura; as, pleuroperitoneum. - PLEURAPOPHYSIS
One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib. -- Pleu*rap`o*phys"i*al, a. Owen. - PLEUROPERITONEAL
Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - PLEUROPERIPNEUMONY
Pleuropneumonia. - PLEUROBRANCHIA
See PLEUROBRANCH - PLEUROSTEON
The antero-lateral piece which articulates the sternum of birds. - PLEUROPNEUMONIA
Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle. - PLEUROBRANCH
Any one of the gills of a crustacean that is attached to the side of the thorax. - PLEURA
pl. of Pleuron. - PLEUROSIGMA
A genus of diatoms of elongated elliptical shape, but having the sides slightly curved in the form of a letter S. Pleurosigma angulatum has very fine striations, and is a favorite object for testing the high powers of microscopes. - PLEURODONT
Having the teeth consolidated with the inner edge of the jaw, as in some lizards. - EPIPLEURAL
Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra. Owen. - PROTHORAX
The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera. - SOMATOPLEURE
The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure. - CEPHALOTHORAX
The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax. - HAEMATOTHORAX
See HEMOTHORAX - SUBPLEURAL
Situated under the pleural membrane. - SPLANCHNOPLEURE
The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure. -- Splanch`no*pleu"ric, - ARTHROPLEURA
The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere. - ENDOPLEURA
The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen. - IRONSIDES
A cuirassier or cuirassiers; also, hardy veteran soldiers; -- applied specifically to Cromwell's cavalry.