emphysematous
IPA: ɛmfʌzˈimʌtʌs
adjective
- (medicine) Related, similar to or involving emphysema; swollen, bloated.
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Examples of "emphysematous" in Sentences
- Give the cause and treatment of emphysematous anthrax.
- The air vesicles were emphysematous, the lungs were pale.
- Perhaps clubbing is a late change in severe emphysematous disease.
- The term heaves is applied almost wholly to an emphysematous condition of the lungs.
- V. Forms of inadequate ventilation in normal and emphysematous lungs, analyzed by means of breathing pure oxygen, J. Clin.
- When, eventually, the phone did ring, interrupting the air conditioner's emphysematous wheeze, all three of the men jumped.
- _The specific cause_ of "black leg" is a rod-shaped, spore-producing germ, the bacillus of emphysematous anthrax (Fig. 119).
- Ms Winslet's tour de force as a hyperventilatory winner has been applauded by the critics, with Derek Malcolm of the Evening Standard describing it as 'a triumph of emphysematous excellence '.
- For when an emphysematous lung shall fully occupy the right thoracic side from B to L, then G, the liver, will protrude considerably into the abdomen beneath the right asternal ribs, and yet will not be therefore proof positive that the liver is diseased and abnormally enlarged.
- May it not be possible to obtain, by such collaborative effort, more fundamental evidence on pathogenesis in such presently obscure and yet devastating conditions as pulmonary fibrosis in its many forms, the emphysematous change, bulla formation, the many-sided problem of pulmonary vascular change, the disorders of the bronchial circulation?
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