pleuretic

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pleuretic (not comparable)

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the pleura, the smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book VII, chapter xiii
  
  […] which I expected to have found extremely sizy and glutinous, or indeed coagulated, as it is in pleuretic complaints;