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
One of the most serious complications met in treating tuberculosis is what the doctors call empyema, i.e., the cavity between a lung and the chest wall fills with pus.
From Time Magazine Archive
In two cases where trypsin failed, the empyema was of long standing and the cavity walls had become rigid.
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
When the matter from an abscess in the lungs finds its way into the cavity of the chest, it is called an empyema.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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