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Definition of Hemothorax
1. Noun. Accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest).
Definition of Hemothorax
1. n. An effusion of blood into the cavity of the pleura.
Definition of Hemothorax
1. Noun. (medicine) A condition resulting from accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity. ¹
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Medical Definition of Hemothorax
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemothorax
Literary usage of Hemothorax
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of surgery v.2: Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Operative by Samuel David Gross (1872)
"The manner in which the blood in hemothorax is disposed of is subject to some
diversity ; when the quantity is small, it is generally absorbed, followed, ..."
2. The Science and art of surgery by John Eric Erichsen (1864)
"The principal dangers attending a wound of the lung arise from the Bleeding, both
external and internal, the occurrence of hemothorax, Emphysema, ..."
3. Contributions to Medical and Biological Research by William Osler (1919)
"THE DIAGNOSIS OF TRAUMATIC hemothorax BY GEO. ... IT would seem at first sight
that the physical signs of traumatic hemothorax or ..."
4. Abstracts of War Surgery: An Abstract of the War Literature of General by United States Surgeon-General's Office, Surgeon-General's Office, United States (1918)
"This paper deals with the growth in a hemothorax of certain anaerobic bacilli
... In a series of 195 cases of septic hemothorax, 87 or 44.6 per cent were ..."
5. Principles and Practice of Physical Diagnosis by John C. Da Costa (1919)
"hemothorax (Pleural Hemorrhage) hemothorax, or hemorrhage into the pleural cavity,
results from accidents such as traumatism of the chest, rupture of an ..."
6. A Text-book of the Diseases of the Small Domestic Animals by Oscar Victor Brumley (1921)
"hemothorax. Definition.—An effusion of pure blood into the pleural sac.
Etiology.—Traumatism, rupture of the vessels from over- exertion especially when the ..."
7. Diseases of the chest and the principles of physical diagnosis by George William Norris, Henry Robert Murray Landis, Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1920)
"... excessive number of eosinophiles not only in the fluid itself but also in the
circulating blood. The same thing has been noted in cases of hemothorax. ..."
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