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MeSH Heading: Pleurisy
Tree Number(s): C01.748.582; C08.528.735; C08.730.582
Unique ID: D010998
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010998
Annotation: pleuropericarditis: coordinate PLEUROPERICARDITIS see PERICARDITIS with PLEURITIS see PLEURISY
Scope Note: INFLAMMATION of PLEURA, the lining of the LUNG. When PARIETAL PLEURA is involved, there is pleuritic CHEST PAIN.
Entry Term(s): Pleuritis
NLM Classification #: WF 744
See Also: Pleura
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2019/06/17

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Pleurisy MeSH Descriptor Data 2025