| 释义 |
pneu·mo·thorax
\|n(y)ümō+\ noun
Etymology: New Latin, from pneum- + thorax
: a state in which air or other gas is present in the pleural cavity and which occurs spontaneously as a result of disease or injury of lung tissue or puncture of the chest wall or is induced as a therapeutic measure to collapse the lung (as in tuberculosis) |