atelectasis
pronunciation
How to pronounce atelectasis in British English:
UK [ˌætə'lektəsɪs]
How to pronounce atelectasis in American English:
US [ˌætə'lektəsɪs]
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- Noun:
- collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth
Word Origin
- atelectasis (n.)
- "incomplete expansion of the lungs," 1836, medical Latin, from Greek ateles "imperfect, incomplete," literally "without an end," (from a-, privative prefix, + telos "completion") + ektosis "extention." Related: Atelectatic.
Example
- 1. Causes and clinical therapies of 240 atelectasis cases .
- 2. Atelectasis or obstructive pneumopathy involving less than the whole lung .
- 3. Retrospective analysis of pulmonary atelectasis misdiagnosed as empyema with ultrasonography .
- 4. Severe symptoms : pneumonia , pneumochysis , atelectasis .
- 5. Effect of extrinsic positive end expiratory pressure on arterial blood gas and hemodynamics in patients with atelectasis .