English words starting with pn - page 2

Of, relating to, or of the nature of pneumonitis; characteristic of or affected by pneumonitis.

Inflammation of the walls of the alveoli (air sacs) in the lungs.

Hernia of the lung; compare pneumatocele , pneumocele .

Pulmonary fibrosis.

Pneumoconiosis.

The freeing of a lung from adhesions; (more fully "intrapleural pneumonolysis") lysis of adhesions within the pleural cavity; (also) (in full "extrapleural pneumonolysis") the surgical stripping of the parietal pleura and adherent lung from the chest wall; an instance of this.

= pneumatometer .

= pneumorrhagia .

The presence of air or gas in the pericardium. also (more fully "artificial pneumopericardium"): the deliberate introduction of air or gas into the pericardium for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes (now rare).

The presence of air or gas in the peritoneal cavity (usually as a result of perforation of a hollow viscus).

= pyopneumothorax .

Haemorrhage in the lung; haemoptysis.

= pneumotherapy .

The presence of air or gas in the cavity between the lungs and the chest wall, causing collapse of the lung.

Surgical incision into the lung; an instance of this.

Typhoid fever complicated by or presenting with pneumonia.

Typhoid or typhus fever complicated by pneumonia.

The injection of air into the cerebral ventricles as a radiological contrast medium; radiological examination by this means.

The public place of assembly in ancient athens, a semicircular level cut out of the side of a small hill west of the acropolis.