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empyema Path.|ɛmpaɪˈiːmə, ɛmpɪ-|
[mod.L., a. Gr. ἐµπύηµα a gathering, suppuration, f. ἐµπυέ-ειν to suppurate.]
1. ‘A collection of pus in the cavity of the pleura, the result of pleurisy. The term has also been used to denote any chronic inflammatory effusion in the chest’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1615Crooke Body of Man 367 You shall open a mans side diseased of the Empyema. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. vii. (1852) App. 606 All his..skill in anatomy could not prevent its producing an empyema. 1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 569 Suppuration in the antrum, or Empyema.
2. In wider sense: Suppuration. rare.
1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 149 The term empyema only expresses the existence of pus, without indicating its situation. 1880tr. Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. IX. 545 This so⁓called Empyema of the Gall bladder.
†3. ‘An operation to discharge all sorts of matter with which the midriff is loaded by making a perforation in the Breast’ (Kersey). Obs.—0
1721–1800in Bailey. 1775in Ash. |