pulmonary collapse

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• Pulmonary contusion — Classification and external resources A CT scan showing a pulmonary contusion (red arrow) accompanied by a rib fracture (blue arrow) ICD 10 S …   Wikipedia

• Pulmonary embolism — Classification and external resources Chest spiral CT scan with radiocontrast agent showing multiple filling defects both at the bifurcation and in the pulmonary arteries. ICD 10 …   Wikipedia

• Pulmonary compliance — (or lung compliance) can refer to either dynamic or static lung compliance. Static lung compliance is the change in volume for any given applied pressure.[1] Dynamic lung compliance is the compliance of the lung at any given time during actual… …   Wikipedia

• Pulmonary toilet — Pulmonary toilet, also called pulmonary hygiene,cite journal |author=Moody LE |title=Primer for pulmonary hygiene |journal=Am J Nurs |volume=77 |issue=1 |pages=104–6 |year=1977 |month=January |pmid=584121 |doi= |url=] is a set of methods used to… …   Wikipedia

• Pulmonary alveolus — An alveolus (plural: alveoli, from Latin alveolus , little cavity ) is an anatomical structure that has the form of a hollow cavity. Found in the lung, the pulmonary alveoli are spherical outcroppings of the respiratory bronchioles and are the… …   Wikipedia

• collapse — 1. A condition of extreme prostration, similar or identical to hypovolemic shock and due to the same causes. 2. A state of profound physical depression. 3. A falling together of the walls of a structure. 4. The failure of a physiologic …   Medical dictionary

• Pulmonary surfactant — Diagram of the alveoli with both cross section and external view Pulmonary surfactant is a surface active lipoprotein complex (phospholipoprotein) formed by type II alveolar cells. The proteins and lipids that surfactant comprises have both a… …   Wikipedia

• pulmonary alveolus — Any of the 300 million or so small air spaces in the lungs where carbon dioxide leaves the blood and oxygen enters it. Alveoli form clusters (alveolar sacs) connected by alveolar ducts to the bronchioles. Their thin walls contain numerous… …   Universalium

• pulmonary anthrax — noun a form of anthrax infection acquired by inhalation of dust containing Bacillus anthracis; initial symptoms (chill and cough and dyspnea and rapid pulse) are followed by extreme cardiovascular collapse • Syn: ↑inhalation anthrax, ↑anthrax… …   Useful english dictionary

• collapse therapy — a treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis, formerly widely used, in which the diseased lung was collapsed in order to immobilize it and allow it to rest. Common methods were oleothorax, plombage, pneumonolysis, artificial pneumothorax, and… …   Medical dictionary

• reexpansion pulmonary edema — pulmonary edema in a lung that has been rapidly reinflated after a period of collapse such as that due to a pneumothorax or a pleural effusion …   Medical dictionary