empyema
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- empyemic adjective
Etymology
Origin of empyema
1605–15; < Late Latin < Greek empýēma abscess, equivalent to em- em- 2 + pyē- (variant stem of pyeîn to suppurate, akin to pýon, pýos pus) + -ma noun suffix denoting result of action
Example Sentences
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He said she died as a result of bronchopneumonia with empyema due to invasive streptococcal infection.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2024
In two cases where trypsin failed, the empyema was of long standing and the cavity walls had become rigid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not long ago empyema was one of the commonest complications; nowadays, thanks to streptomycin and skillful surgery, it afflicts fewer than one-tenth of tuberculosis patients.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Livingston Farrand, 72, modest, beloved president-emeritus of Cornell University; of bronchopneumonia and empyema; in Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Infective emboli are liable to lodge in the lung or pleura, and set up pulmonary abscess, gangrene of the lung, or empyema.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
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