Emphysema
Emphysema , noun
[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} inflation, from {not transcribed} to inflate; {not transcribed} in + {not transcribed} to blow: compare French emphysème.]
(Medicine) A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.
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Emphysema of the lungs or Pulmonary emphysema (Medicine) , a common disease of the lungs in which the air cells are distended and their partition walls ruptured by an abnormal pressure of the air contained in them.