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An abnormal condition of the lungs marked by decreased respiratory function
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emphysema
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Fluid took up air space ... you never saw anyone with emphysema run upstairs. ▪ Gaseous exchange at the alveolar surface is gravely hindered and the lesion is often accompanied by interstitial emphysema and pulmonary oedema. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Emphysema in the broadest sense of the word is pneumatosis , that is, any abnormal accumulation of air or other gas within animal tissues. In the most common sense of the word it is, more specifically, pulmonary emphysema, which is a type of chronic obstructive ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an abnormal condition of the lungs marked by decreased respiratory function; associated with smoking or chronic bronchitis or old age [syn: pulmonary emphysema ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from Modern Latin, from Greek emphysema "swelling, inflation" (of the bowels, etc.), from emphysan "to blow in, inflate; to play the flute," from assimilated form of en "in" (see en- (2)) + physan "to blow," from physa "breath, blast" (see pustule ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emphysema \Em`phy*se"ma\, n. [NL., from Gr. ? inflation, fr. ? to inflate; ? in + ? to blow: cf. F. emphys[`e]me.] (Med.) A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue. Emphysema of the lungs , Pulmonary emphysema (Med.), a common disease ...
Usage examples of emphysema.
According to Von Bretzel, the family doctor, dissection of the pulmonary cavity indicated that consumption had probably developed with the emphysema.
And from that day to this, there has never again been a blotch of climatic smegma on the horizon, the Earth has settled down knowing the human race has learned its lesson and would never again take a ka-ka in its own nest, and that is why today the National Emphysema Society declared itself out of business.
The principal symptoms were hemorrhage from the vagina and intense pain near the fractured rib, followed by emphysema.
She is suffering from chronic bronchitis and emphysema, and you have sent her to the Institute Respiratorio in Nuevo Judrez.
It leads to lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and any number of pregnancy-related health problems.
Over weight, and with a chest that sounded like a loose-strung harp, he was just the sort to die before his time from heart trouble or lung cancer or chronic bronchitis or emphysema or like as not the whole lot of them listed on his death certificate.
His mother had died in 1993, but his father, who had turned eighty-four in 1997, was still alive and in full possession of his mental faculties and his health, despite having emphysema of the lungs (even though he'd never smoked) and despite living entirely off frozen food because he couldn't get a housekeeper who could put up with his eccentricities.
Were it not for the confidentiality practiced by the medical profession, it would be known that every second inhabitant of New York is spotted, has greenish bristles growing down his back, thorns on his ears, flat feet, and emphysema with an enlarged heart from constantly galloping about.
He couldn't after he was diagnosed with emphysema, and he couldn't after he was told he had lung cancer.
He observed this as Michael was saying that, according to a study he read, smokers exercised less than nonsmokers, were not as likely to use seat belts, were more prone to argue, missed work more often than nonsmokers, and were two-point-two times more likely to be dissatisfied with their lives, not to mention they were two-point-six times more likely to have bronchitis and emphysema.
Tashkin feels there is no danger for anyone to worry about potentiating emphysema "in any way" by the use of marijuana totally the opposite of tobacco.