pyopneumothorax

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

Portuguese: piopneumotórax m

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)