pyopneumothorax
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]pyo- + pneumothorax
Noun
[edit]pyopneumothorax (uncountable)
- (medicine) The accumulation of air (or other gas) and pus in the pleural cavity.
Translations
[edit]the accumulation of air and pus in the pleural cavity
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pyopneumothorax”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)