All English words - page 4307

Hydropneumothorax.

A calcified concretion in the lung.

The branch of medicine that deals with the lungs; pulmonary or respiratory medicine.

= pneumonolysis .

Manipulation of the eardrum by means of the introduction of pulses of air into the auditory meatus.

Any of various instruments used to measure respiratory volumes or air flow.

Fungal infection of the lung; an instance of this.

Surgical removal of a lung or part of a lung.

Surgical removal of a lung or part of a lung.

Lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection, in which the air sacs fill with pus and may become solid. inflammation may affect both lungs ( double pneumonia ) or only one ( single pneumonia ).

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 .

Treatment by the inhalation of a gas (either for its own effects or as a vehicle for other medicinal agents).

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