PNEUMOTHORAX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pneumothorax mean? 

• PNEUMOTHORAX (noun)
  The noun PNEUMOTHORAX has 1 sense:

1. abnormal presence of air in the pleural cavity resulting in the collapse of the lung; may be spontaneous (due to injury to the chest) or induced (as a treatment for tuberculosis)

  Familiarity information: PNEUMOTHORAX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PNEUMOTHORAX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abnormal presence of air in the pleural cavity resulting in the collapse of the lung; may be spontaneous (due to injury to the chest) or induced (as a treatment for tuberculosis)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("pneumothorax" is a kind of...):

abnormalcy; abnormality (an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies)

 Context examples 

If it is a total collapse, it is called pneumothorax.

(Collapsed Lung, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)