Crossword-Solution: EMPYEMA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Empyema | n. | A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura. |
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Sentences with EMPYEMA (5)
Macnab reports an instance in which three years after the cure of empyema the whole stomach constituted the hernia.
LOCAL PERITONITIS.--This may come from local injury, but it is usually secondary to empyema, tuberculosis, or cancer, abscess, perforation of the stomach or bowel, ulcer, etc.
The sinuses associated with empyema are prevented from healing by the rigidity of the chest wall, and will only close after an operation which admits of the cavity being obliterated.
When the main incidence of the infection affects the synovial membrane, the clinical picture may assume the form of a _hydrops_, or of an _empyema_ in which the joint is filled with pus.
These physical signs suggest empyema; and rib resection had been done before admission in a number of cases only to find the pleura normal.