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bachelor's button (medicine)


bachelor's button
<botany> A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena).

Bachelor's buttons, a name given to several flowers "from their similitude to the jagged cloathe buttons, anciently worne in this kingdom", according to Johnson's; but by Other writers ascribed to "a habit of country fellows to carry them in their pockets to divine their Success with their sweethearts."

Source: Websters Dictionary


visceral pleurisy (medicine)


visceral pleurisy -->
pulmonary pleurisy
Inflammation of the pleura covering the lungs.

Synonym: visceral pleurisy.