Definition of Alveolar ectasia

1. Noun. Abnormal enlargement of the air sacs in the lungs.

Generic synonyms: Ectasia, Ectasis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alveolar Ectasia

alveolar atrophy
alveolar bed
alveolar body
alveolar bone
alveolar bone loss
alveolar bones
alveolar border
alveolar canals
alveolar cell
alveolar cell carcinoma
alveolar consonant
alveolar crest
alveolar dead space
alveolar duct
alveolar duct emphysema
alveolar ectasia (current term)
alveolar foramina
alveolar gas
alveolar gas equation
alveolar gingiva
alveolar gland
alveolar hydatid cyst
alveolar index
alveolar macrophage
alveolar macrophage elastase
alveolar mucosa
alveolar osteitis
alveolar part of mandible
alveolar pattern
alveolar periosteum

Literary usage of Alveolar ectasia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of the Bronchi, Lungs and Pleura, by Friedrich Albin Hoffmann, Ottomar Rosenbach, Emanuel Aufrecht, John Herr Musser, Alfred Stengel (1902)
"The value of the procedure, he says, consists in the removal of acute and subacute alveolar ectasia only. It follows, then, that Schreiber considers ..."

2. A Dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences by Richard Dennis Hoblyn (1900)
"alveolar ectasia has been suggested in place of vesicular emphysema, as a term more correctly describing the pathological condition of the alveoli of the ..."

3. Principles and Practice of Physical Diagnosis by jr John C Da Costa (1919)
"See also Abscess of lung. pain in, 122 actinomycosis of, 271 physical signs, 271 albinism of, 244 alveolar ectasia, 248 anterior borders, 125, ..."

4. Lippincott's Medical dictionary: A Complete Vocabulary of the Terms Used in by Ryland W. Greene, Joseph Thomas (1906)
"Also called Vesicular emphysema, alveolar ectasia, and Pulmonary emphysema. Subcutaneous e., the distention of the spaces of the areolar tissue with air or ..."

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