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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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