▪ I. pleuritic, a.1 (n.)
(plʊˈrɪtɪk)
Forms: 6 pleureticke, -itique, 7 -etick, 8–9 -etic, (erron. 7 pluratick, 8 pleuratic), 7–8 pleuritick, 8– pleuritic.
[a. F. pleurétique (OF. pleuretic, 13th c.), or ad. L. pleurīticus (Plin.), later pleureticus, a. Gr. πλευριτικός, f. πλευρῖτις pleuritis.]
1. Affected with or suffering from pleurisy.
| 1570 Levins Manip. 121/36 Pléureticke, pleureticus. 1572 J. Jones Bathes of Bath Pref. 2 Some Pleuritique, Hydropique, some with Ptisique. 1628 A. Leighton in Camden Misc. VII. p. ix, They are like pleuretick patients that cannot spit. 1744 Berkeley Siris §78 Having known some pleuritic persons cured without bleeding. 1845 G. E. Day Simon's Anim. Chem. I. 266 The buffy coat is particularly characteristic, and seldom absent in pleuritic blood. |
2. Of or pertaining to pleurisy; characteristic or symptomatic of pleurisy.
| 1652 Benlowes Theoph. i. xliii, By opening Veins Death's sluc'd out, and pleuretick Pains. 1689 Moyle Sea Chyrurg. iii. vi. 108 These carry away a great deal of wind and Pluratick matter. 1732–3 Mrs. Delany in Life & Corr. (1862) 402 She is confined to her bed with a pleuratic disorder. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xvii. 197 Fixed pains of a pleuritic character. 1883–4 Med. Ann. 47/1 Almost immediately the pleuritic effusion disappeared. |
b. Characterized by or liable to cause pleurisy.
| 1744 Armstrong Preserv. Health iii. 490 The pleuritic spring Glides harmless by. |
B. n. A person affected with pleurisy. rare.
| [1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. xxx. (Bodl. MS.), Pleuretici þat haue aposteme vponne the ribbes inward.] 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 45 The pleuretic lying on his left side does not expect pleasure by turning to the other; he has no more in view than a diminution of pain. |
▪ II. pleuˈritic, a.2 Zool.
[f. pleurite + -ic.]
Pertaining to a pleurite; lateral: = pleural a.2
| 1890 in Cent. Dict. 1895 in Syd. Soc. Lex. |