The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mediastinal \Me`di*as*ti"nal\, a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a mediastinum.
Wiktionary
a. (context medicine English) Having to do with the mediastinum.
Usage examples of "mediastinal".
By then, enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes would be putting serious extrinsic pressure on his heart, making it have to work even harder.
Van Duyn knew that wound was killing his countryman quickly, filling the pleural space with blood and pressure that had probably started a mediastinal shift, pushing toward the uninjured side, straining the heart and placing even greater demands on the overworked right lung.
Auscultation would reveal dyspnea, rich in rales, also tachypnea, suggesting mediastinal crunch.
Auscultation would reveal dyspnea, rich in rales, also tachypnea, suggesting mediastinal crunch.
He knew it was highly improbable that we were looking for projectiles or broken bones, but what an X-ray might reveal was pneumothorax or a mediastinal shift caused by air leaking from lungs due to barotrauma.
Van Duyn knew that wound was killing his countryman quickly, filling the pleural space with blood and pressure that had probably started a mediastinal shift, pushing toward the uninjured side, straining the heart and placing even greater demands on the overworked right lung.