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• n  inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer)

• Dana Wallace, 75, famed, criminal lawyer who made his most brilliant (but unsuccessful) defense in the celebrated Ruth Snyder-Judd Gray murder trial in 1927; of pleurisy; in Bay .
• Sister Joan Marie Ryan, 38, bedraggled and ill with pleurisy, was routed from her prison bed by her Communist guards one day last week and taken to see a grave on the outskirts .
• A promising player two years ago, she collapsed during a hard match in Paris, developed pleurisy, spent a year recuperating.

News & Articles

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• Hospital charges vary widely
  Treatment for simple pneumonia and pleurisy at St. Mary Medical Center could put you out, on average, about $1,000 more than if you were treated at Cottage Hospital. It’ll also cost that much more, on average, for treatment of nutritional and miscellaneous metabolic disorders including hypoglycemia, cystic fibrosis and vitamin deficiencies. For the first time, the public has this information at ...
  June 16, 2013 - The Galesburg Register-Mail

Quotes

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• LeBron James in USA Today
  I know what a plural is,James joked. "But I've never heard of pleurisy."
• Matthew Hayden in CricInfo.com
  Talking about the illness which had laid him low, Hayden said: "I felt very sick. My lung capacity was way below 50%. I felt not dissimilar to having pre-flu symptoms but as the week went on the pleurisy symptoms really started to hurt to the point...
• Ken Griffey Jr in Bellingham Herald
  I had pleurisy and couldn't breathe one year, and I've got diverticulitis,Griffey said. "You name it, I've had it."