PNEUMOTHORAX


Meaning of PNEUMOTHORAX in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌnü-mə-ˈthȯr-ˌaks, ˌnyü- ]

noun

Etymology: New Latin

Date: 1821

: a condition in which air or other gas is present in the pleural cavity and which occurs spontaneously as a result of disease or injury of lung tissue, rupture of air-filled pulmonary cysts, or puncture of the chest wall or is induced as a therapeutic measure to collapse the lung

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