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empyema
[ em-pee-ee-muh, -pahy- ]
noun
Pathology.
- a collection of pus in a body cavity, especially the pleural cavity.
empyema
/ 藢蓻尘辫补瑟藞颈藧尘蓹 /
noun
- a collection of pus in a body cavity, esp in the chest
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Derived Forms
- 藢别尘辫测藞别尘颈肠, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 别尘顎卲测路别顎僲颈肠 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of empyema1
C17: from Medieval Latin, from Greek 别尘辫耻脓尘补 abscess, from empuein to suppurate, from puon pus
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He said she died as a result of bronchopneumonia with empyema due to invasive streptococcal infection.
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The infection had formed an abscess called an empyema, which triggered the seizures.
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The first, published this week in Pediatrics, looked at pneumonia, sinusitis and empyema hospitalizations in children under 5 in Sweden鈥檚 Stockholm County between 2003 and 2012.
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Additional confirmation of the fact that Hippocrates was familiar with the phenomena of these diseases may be found in his dissertation on empyema and fevers.
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He resisted this very well, but eventually died rather suddenly of an empyema.
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