单词 | emphysema |
释义 | emphyseman. Medicine. 1. Originally: puffy swelling of an eyelid or other part of the body, caused by or attributed to the accumulation of air or gas; a localized area of this. In later use: spec. the presence of air in subcutaneous tissue or other connective tissue in which it is not normally present; an instance of this. Now usually with distinguishing word, typically indicating the location of the air or the cause of its presence.In quot. 1764 probably gas gangrene. 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Hunton tr. J. Guillemeau Worthy Treat. Eyes (new ed.) iv. i. sig. D9 Emphisema is taken generally for an heape of windy spirites which are gathered in the empty places of any part, as appeareth in Galen, But it is here particularly vsed for a puffing vp of the vppermost eyelidde when it is lifted vp. 1657 N. Culpeper & W. Rand tr. J. Riolan Sure Guide iv. iii. 139 A moist distemper of the Eye-Lids with wind, or a flatulent Spirit, is called Emphysema. 1695 R. B. tr. J. de La Charrière Treat. Chirurg. Operations xxii. 148 The Emphisema is likewise only caused by the particles of the Air, which penetrate the Porosities of the neighbouring parts, which swells and blows them up. 1728 Present State Republick Lett. 2 377 These cells [of the fatty or cellulous membrane]..swell monstrously with air in an emphysema. 1764 Med. Observ. & Inq. (ed. 2) II. 64 I took particular notice of the emphysema in the case of a mortification from an internal cause, which began upon the ancle, and thence marched upwards upon the limb, till it came to the groin. 1823 Lancet 21 Dec. 390/1 This was the first case in which I witnessed emphysema of the forehead produced by blowing the nose. 1889 S. S. Wallian tr. J. N. Demarquay Ess. Med. Pneumatol. p. v In our essay the object has been to study those diseases in which the gases play a certain rôle, as the pneumatoses and the emphysemas. 1949 H. Bailey Demonstr. Physical Signs Clin. Surg. (ed. 11) xiv. 145 The most extreme examples of surgical emphysema are to be seen when a wound or rupture of the trachea or bronchi allows a communication to exist with the areolar tissue of the mediastinum. 1996 Esquire Nov. 47/1 There's subcutaneous emphysema, when air gets under your skin à la Peking duck. 2005 Amer. Jrnl. Emergency Med. 23 403/2 Spontaneous cervical and mediastinal emphysema because of acute severe asthma was diagnosed. 2. More fully pulmonary emphysema, vesicular emphysema: a pathological condition of the lung characterized by enlargement of the air spaces beyond the terminal bronchioles, frequently with destruction of alveoli, resulting in trapping of air and impaired lung function. In later use also (with distinguishing word): any of several forms of this condition.Now the main sense when used without qualification.Emphysema is now best known as a smoking-related condition, but may have a variety of other causes. ΚΠ 1765 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 242 The disorder..was made infinitely worse by the emphysema. 1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) I. 622 These organs [sc. the lungs] are in the state of vesicular or pulmonary emphysema. a1883 C. H. Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. (1886) I. 875 Emphysema of the lungs—or ‘emphysema’, as it is often called without any addition, when there can be no doubt that a pulmonary affection is intended. 1920 Nature 26 Feb. 703/1 Reference is made to the question of the production of emphysema of the lungs (a condition of permanent distension with other changes) by the playing of wind-instruments. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxiv. 637 Two varieties of the chronic type of emphysema are described: (1) hypertrophic emphysema—by far the most important, and always indicated where the term ‘emphysema’ alone is used; and (2) atrophic, or senile emphysema. 1977 J. Wambaugh Black Marble (1978) xii. 286 Sounds like you could get a bad case of emphysema. 1992 Sun (Baltimore) 23 June c4/2 A deficiency of AAT [= alpha1 antitrypsin] is a fairly common inherited disorder associated with an increased tendency to develop emphysema. 2010 P. Daniels Class Actor i. 6 In fact I think my Uncle Willie died of emphysema, which is the miner's curse. Derivatives ˌemphyˈsemic adj. = emphysematous adj. ΚΠ 1885 Med. & Surg. Reporter 28 Mar. 387/1 The epithelium of the air cells decomposes, the cell walls give away, several cells or many cells are turned into one, and still the emphysemic condition continues. 1922 U.S. Naval Med. Bull. 16 647 Emphysemic group: This includes about 22 per cent of the cases of the series. The chest seems moderately rigid, movements are restricted, and expansion is impaired. 2010 Wall St. Jrnl. 7 May w11/1 Caine plays an emphysemic codger living out his days in a London housing project terrorized by feral youth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1587 |
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