Wiktionary
alt. (context medicine English) The accumulation of fluid in the tissue of the lungs. n. (context medicine English) The accumulation of fluid in the tissue of the lungs.
Wikipedia
Pulmonary edema (American English), or oedema ( British English; both words from the Greek ), is fluid accumulation in the air spaces and parenchyma of the lungs. It leads to impaired gas exchange and may cause respiratory failure. It is due to either failure of the left ventricle of the heart to adequately remove blood from the pulmonary circulation ("cardiogenic pulmonary edema"), or an injury to the lung parenchyma or vasculature of the lung ("noncardiogenic pulmonary edema"). Treatment is focused on three aspects: firstly improving respiratory function, secondly, treating the underlying cause, and thirdly avoiding further damage to the lung. Pulmonary edema, especially acute, can lead to fatal respiratory distress or cardiac arrest due to hypoxia. It is a cardinal feature of congestive heart failure.
Usage examples of "pulmonary edema".
Some few developed pulmonary edema, pneumonia, or even cerebral hemorrhaging if they went higher.
But for Digen it was something like dying of pulmonary edema and trying not to wheeze.
He found severe pulmonary edema and edema of the throat and nasal passages, which also doesn't appear to be connected to the cause of death but which he can't account for.
One man experienced swelling of his body, from head to foot, a hot, bloated swelling until he suffocated from pulmonary edema.
If you ignore the warning signs of AMS and stay too high, the consequences can be lethal as your lungs fill with fluid (pulmonary edema) or your head fills with fluid (cerebral edema).
You were facing pulmonary edema, ventricular fibrillation, the loss of a few of your bits.
Eric had seen nearly the same profile in sin nombre patients entering the pulmonary edema phase of the disease.
The woman developed multiple organ failure, pulmonary edema, and went into a coma and died.