empiema

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Catalan

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: em‧pi‧e‧ma

Noun

empiema m (plural empiemes)

  1. (pathology) empyema

Further reading


Italian

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Noun

empiema m (plural empiemi)

  1. (pathology) empyema

Portuguese

Noun

empiema m (plural empiemas)

  1. (medicine) empyema (accumulation of pus)

Spanish

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Etymology

From Scientific Latin empyema, from Ancient Greek ἐμπύημα (empúēma), from Ancient Greek πύον (púon, pus).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /emˈpjema/ [ẽmˈpje.ma]
  • Rhymes: -ema

Noun

empiema m (plural empiemas)

  1. (pathology) empyema

References

  1. ^ empiema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014