Crossword clues for emphysema
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 of the lungs in which the air cells are distended and their partition walls ruptured by an abnormal pressure of the air contained in them.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context pathology English) An abnormal accumulation of air in tissues, most commonly the lungs. 2 (context medicine English) pulmonary emphysema, a chronic lung disease.
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]
Wikipedia
- Redirect Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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 pulmonary disease.
Types of emphysema include the following:
- Congenital lobar emphysema, enlarged air spaces in the lungs of newborns
- Cutaneous emphysema, subcutaneous emphysema (gas or air trapped in the subcutaneous layer)
- Mediastinal emphysema, pneumomediastinum (pneumatosis/emphysema of the mediastinum)
- Paraseptal emphysema, a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Peritoneal emphysema, pneumoperitoneum (pneumatosis/emphysema of the peritoneal cavity)
- Pulmonary emphysema, a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Pulmonary interstitial emphysema, air trapped in the stroma (interstitium) of the lung
- Subcutaneous emphysema, gas or air trapped in the subcutaneous layer (that is, under the skin)
- Surgical emphysema, subcutaneous emphysema (gas or air trapped in the subcutaneous layer)
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.