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Noun: diaphragmatic pleurisy
  1. An acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)
    - epidemic pleurodynia, epidemic myalgia, myosis, Bornholm disease

Derived forms: diaphragmatic pleurisies

Type of: epidemic disease

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