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- noun Plural form of
empyema .
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Examples
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Of empyemata such as are spit up while the sputum is still bilious, are very fatal, whether the bilious portion be expectorated separate, or along with the other; but more especially if the empyema begin to advance after this sputum on the seventh day of the disease.
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These symptoms attend chronic empyemata, and may be much trusted to; and such as are of short standing are indicated by the same, provided they be accompanied by those signs which occur at the commencement, and if at the same time the patient has some difficulty of breathing.
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Secondary empyemata not uncommonly followed incision of the chest, or excision of a rib for draining a hæmothorax.
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