DIAPHRAGMATIC PLEURISY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)

Synonyms:

Bornholm disease; diaphragmatic pleurisy; epidemic myalgia; epidemic pleurodynia; myosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("diaphragmatic pleurisy" is a kind of...):

epidemic disease (any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people)

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