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Definition of Alveolar ectasia
1. Noun. Abnormal enlargement of the air sacs in the lungs.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alveolar Ectasia
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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