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emphysema

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun emphysema has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

emphyseman. [NL., from Gr. inflation, fr. to inflate; in + to blow: cf. F. emphysème.].
     A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.  [1913 Webster]
Emphysema of the lungs, Pulmonary emphysema (Med.), a common disease of the lungs in which the air cells are distended and their partition walls ruptured by an abnormal pressure of the air contained in them.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

emphysema, n.
1 enlargement of the air sacs of the lungs causing breathlessness.
2 a swelling caused by the presence of air in the connective tissues of the body.

Etymology
LL f. Gk emphusema f. emphusao puff up

THESAURUS

emphysema

Asiatic flu, Hong Kong flu, acute bronchitis, adenoiditis, aluminosis, amygdalitis, anthracosilicosis, anthracosis, asbestosis, asthma, atypical pneumonia, bituminosis, black lung, bronchial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, bronchiolitis, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, catarrh, chalicosis, chronic bronchitis, cold, collapsed lung, common cold, coniosis, coryza, croup, croupous pneumonia, double pneumonia, dry pleurisy, empyema, epidemic pleurodynia, fibrinous pneumonia, flu, grippe, hay fever, influenza, la grippe, laryngitis, lipoid pneumonia, lobar pneumonia, lung cancer, lung fever, pharyngitis, pleurisy, pleuritis, pneumococcal pneumonia, pneumoconiosis, pneumonia, pneumonic fever, pneumothorax, quinsy, rheum, siderosis, silicosis, sore throat, swine flu, the sniffles, the snuffles, tonsilitis, virus pneumonia, wet pleurisy, whooping cough
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