Word: pleural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away $100 bills, warning his employes never to marry, in general behaving with the gruffness expected of him. Last January, after two years of bitter wrangling with the village of Saranac Lake which has threatened to put up a municipal power plant, crotchety Phelps Smith was suddenly stricken with pleural pneumonia and died...
...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 nerves which control that side of the diaphragm are cut (phrenicotomy). Although little known at New Orleans last week, Dr. Archibald, 63, is famed among lung specialists. He has been director...
...Pittsburgh's Presbyterian Hospital Surgeon Charles M. Watson and his surgeon-son, James Rose Watson, swiftly ripped the left side of the butcher boy's chest open. Inside they could see blood pouring from the punctured heart into the pleural cavity wherein the left lung lay deflated...
...partial vacuum of those pleural cavities the lungs expand and collapse, expand and collapse with each breath. Sometimes infection inflames the lining of a pleural cavity, causes an exudation which fills the cavity and leaves no space for the lung to expand. In such a case of pleurisy, the fluid has to be drained off through a hollow needle carefully pushed in between a pair of ribs...
Sometimes a stab wound lets air into a pleural cavity. The air destroys the pleural vacuum which the lung requires and acts as a pneumatic cushion against which the lung can not expand. Such an accident is called pneumothorax...