Definition of Emphisema
||Em`phy*se"ma (?), n. [NL., from Gr.
&?; inflation, fr. &?; to inflate; &?; in + &?; to blow: cf. F.
emphysème.] (Med.) A swelling produced by
gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (pathology) An abnormal accumulation of air in tissues , especially the lungs. Pulmonary emphysema is a chronic lung disease, characterised by an abnormal increase in the size of the air spaces, resulting in laboured breathing and caused by exposure to toxic chemicals such as tobacco smoke.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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