Pleurodynia

Also known as Bornholm disease, this is a temporary illness that is a result of virus infection. The disease features fever and intense abdominal and chest pains with headache. The chest pain is typically worsened by breathing or coughing. The illness usually lasts from 3 to 14 days. The most common virus causing Bornholm disease is an enterovirus called Coxsackie B. Bornholm disease is also called epidemic myalgia. The name "pleurodynia" refers to the inflammation of the lining tissue of the lungs.

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1. Pleuritic pain in the chest. 2. A painful affection of the tendinous attachments of the thoracic muscles, usually of one side only. SYN: costalgia. [pleuro- + G. odyne, pain]

- epidemic p. an acute infectious disease usually occurring in epidemic form, characterized by paroxysms of pain, usually in the chest, and associated with strains of Enterovirus coxsackievirus type B. SYN: benign dry pleurisy, Bornholm disease, Daae disease, devil grip, diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic benign dry pleurisy, epidemic diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic myalgia, epidemic myositis, myositis epidemica acuta, epidemic transient diaphragmatic spasm, Sylvest disease.

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pleu·ro·dyn·ia .plu̇r-ə-'din-ē-ə n

1) a sharp pain in the side usu. located in the intercostal muscles and believed to arise from inflammation of fibrous tissue

2) EPIDEMIC PLEURODYNIA

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n.

severe paroxysmal pain arising from the muscles between the ribs. It is often thought to be of rheumatic origin.

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pleu·ro·dyn·ia (ploor″o-dinґe-ə) [pleur- + -odynia] 1. pain in the pleural cavity. 2. costalgia (def. 2). Called also pleuralgia.