Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The presence of pus in a pleural cavity; empyema.

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  • noun pleural empyema; an accumulation of pus in the pleural cavity

Etymologies

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pyo- +‎ thorax

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Examples

  • Mrs Dunn, a cheerful cockney who had lived within a stone's throw of the hospital for most of her life, had been operated upon two days previously for what she described as 'a nasty old chest ', and which Mr Grenfell, out of her hearing, referred to as pyothorax, brought about by a sketchy convalescence from pneumonia and several wasted months of sampling every cough and cold remedy on the chemist's shelves.

    Heidelberg Wedding Neels, Betty 1984

  • We know the Queen Mother Hospital of old, from Dougal's bout of pyothorax four years ago, and they're marvellous people - I've told Bogna I want to be treated by them if I get really sick - so Bogna took Kuron up there on Thursday.

    July 11th, 2008 frostokovich 2008

  • So we keep an eye on them, particularly after Dougal's brush with death a couple of years ago from pyothorax.

    December 13th, 2007 marlowe1 2007

  • Ham MF, Takakuwa T, Rahadiani N, Tresnasari K, Nakajima H, et al. (2007) Condensin mutations and abnormal chromosomal structures in pyothorax-associated lymphoma.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alexander Samoshkin et al. 2009

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