ˌpneumo-periˈcardial, a. Path.
[f. pneumo- b + pericardial.]
Applied to a sound heard in pleurisy, attributed to the friction of the investing membrane of the lung against the pericardium: = pleuropericardial (see pleuro-).
| 1876 tr. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. VI. 595 This sound is called the extra-pericardial, pneumo-pericardial or pleuro-pericardial friction sound. |