Word: pneumothorax
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Fracture of the base of the skull, with laceration of the fornix cerebri (white fibers connecting the brain's hemispheres); contusion of the frontal and temporal lobes; severe shock; fracture of nine ribs; pneumothorax (air in the pleural space around the lungs); hemothorax (blood in the same space); rupture of the pubic bone junction; fractures of the pubic, hip and haunch bones, and of the head of the left thigh bone; severe contusions of abdominal organs; rupture of the urinary bladder; paralysis of both arms and both legs; gradual failing of circulation, and gradual failing of breathing, apparently from...
...victim had not told the airline that he had been in a tubercular clinic and under treatment by pneumothorax (collapsed lung). His death was due to a simple law of physics: as atmospheric pressure decreased, the air in his chest cavity expanded to a volume that swiftly caused fatal complications...
Michael J. Brody '42, whose presence in Stillman Infirmary for the last week has caused considerable conjecture among Boston papers is suffering from spontaneous pneumothorax, according to Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene...
...lung from expanding and thereby exerting itself. This rest enables the lung to confine the invading germs of tuberculosis while the other lung, with no appreciable inconvenience, takes up a double burden for the rest of the patient's life. Thoracoplasty is not to be confused with artificial pneumothorax or with phrenicotomy, other efficient and less drastic methods of resting a tuberculous lung. In artificial pneumothorax a hollow needle is inserted between two ribs. Air is pumped into the pleural cavity of the affected side until pressure prevents the lung from expanding. Nor can a diseased lung expand when...
...robust Chicago politicians, led by Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly, departed, proud that they had supplied the money to enable Iroquois Memorial Hospital to inaugurate what they believed was the world's first pneumothorax clinic for the wholesale treatment of tuberculosis...