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单词 pulmonary emphysema
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pulmonary emphysema
2. More fully pulmonary emphysema, vesicular emphysema: a pathological condition of the lung characterized by enlargement of the air spaces beyond the terminal bronchioles, frequently with destruction of alveoli, resulting in trapping of air and impaired lung function. In later use also (with distinguishing word): any of several forms of this condition.Now the main sense when used without qualification.Emphysema is now best known as a smoking-related condition, but may have a variety of other causes.
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1765 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 242 The disorder..was made infinitely worse by the emphysema.
1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) I. 622 These organs [sc. the lungs] are in the state of vesicular or pulmonary emphysema.
a1883 C. H. Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. (1886) I. 875 Emphysema of the lungs—or ‘emphysema’, as it is often called without any addition, when there can be no doubt that a pulmonary affection is intended.
1920 Nature 26 Feb. 703/1 Reference is made to the question of the production of emphysema of the lungs (a condition of permanent distension with other changes) by the playing of wind-instruments.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxiv. 637 Two varieties of the chronic type of emphysema are described: (1) hypertrophic emphysema—by far the most important, and always indicated where the term ‘emphysema’ alone is used; and (2) atrophic, or senile emphysema.
1977 J. Wambaugh Black Marble (1978) xii. 286 Sounds like you could get a bad case of emphysema.
1992 Sun (Baltimore) 23 June c4/2 A deficiency of AAT [= alpha1 antitrypsin] is a fairly common inherited disorder associated with an increased tendency to develop emphysema.
2010 P. Daniels Class Actor i. 6 In fact I think my Uncle Willie died of emphysema, which is the miner's curse.
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