What's the difference between air and pneumothorax?

Air


Definition:

  • (n.) The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.
  • (n.) Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile.
  • (n.) A particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.
  • (n.) Any aeriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air.
  • (n.) Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind.
  • (n.) Odoriferous or contaminated air.
  • (n.) That which surrounds and influences.
  • (n.) Utterance abroad; publicity; vent.
  • (n.) Intelligence; information.
  • (n.) A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.
  • (n.) In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air.
  • (n.) The peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air.
  • (n.) Peculiar appearance; apparent character; semblance; manner; style.
  • (n.) An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs.
  • (n.) The representation or reproduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed.
  • (n.) Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air.
  • (n.) The artificial motion or carriage of a horse.
  • (n.) To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room.
  • (n.) To expose for the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion.
  • (n.) To expose to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to air liquors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
  • (2) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (3) Sperm were examined at 4.5 h, 8 to 9 h, and 24 to 25 h of incubation (37 degrees C, 5% CO2, and 95% air).
  • (4) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
  • (5) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
  • (6) By increasing luminal air pressure from 10 to 20 cm H2O a significant reduction in GBF was observed.
  • (7) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
  • (8) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
  • (9) Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue.
  • (10) These data suggest that submaximal exercise and cold air exposure enhance nonspecific bronchial reactivity in asthmatic but not in normal subjects.
  • (11) The phenylalanine model allows the rapid assessment of whole body and muscle protein turnover from plasma samples alone, obviating the need for measurement of expired air CO2 production or enrichment.
  • (12) Age-specific MRs for the over-75-year age group were also not related to the winter air temperatures in the eight cities.
  • (13) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
  • (14) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
  • (15) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
  • (16) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
  • (17) Rats were injected subcutaneously with 10 ml of air into the dorsal skin to make an air-pouch and with 2 ml of antiserum at an appropriate dilution for passive sensitization, and then 5 ml of air was removed.
  • (18) Of the other patients, four panicked with sodium lactate, none with 5% CO2, and one with room air hyperventilation.
  • (19) In presence of oxygen (air) the phototactic reaction values are somewhat lower than in its absence.
  • (20) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.

Pneumothorax


Definition:

  • (n.) A condition in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was one complication (4.8%) from PCD (pneumothorax) and no deaths in this group.
  • (2) The results of simple aspiration in 30 cases of pneumothorax are presented.
  • (3) Two complications were observed: one case each of pneumothorax and purulent peritonitis.
  • (4) No major complication was recorded and a case of asymptomatic pneumothorax resolved spontaneously within 48 hours.
  • (5) Various methods have so far been used to treat pneumothorax, including rest, needle exsufflation and blind drainage.
  • (6) In the ECMO patient, cardiac stun syndrome and electromechanical dissociation can be confused with low circuit volume, pneumothorax, or cardiac tamponade.
  • (7) The relation between smoking habits and the occurrence of spontaneous pneumothorax (SP) was studied in a Swedish population, predominantly urban.
  • (8) Small pneumothoraces were successfully managed with catheter aspiration for simple pneumothorax in 87% of patients, moderate-sized in 60%, and large in 61%.
  • (9) Anatomical and functional changes were present in the reexpanded lung after relief of pneumothorax.
  • (10) The diagnostic criteria of potentially fatal asthma included at least one of the following four potentially fatal asthma events: 1) mechanical ventilation for respiratory arrest or failure, 2) acute respiratory acidosis that did not necessitate mechanical ventilation, 3) two episodes of acute pneumomediastinum or pneumothorax associated with status asthmaticus, 4) two or more hospitalizations for status asthmaticus in spite of long term oral corticosteroids.
  • (11) Thirty-two (56%) had moderate-severe pulmonary contusions and 44 (77%) required chest tubes for hemo-pneumothorax.
  • (12) New theories on the etiology and treatment of primary spontaneous and secondary pneumothorax are mentioned.
  • (13) The complications encountered during MV were sepsis (26.8%), pulmonary haemorrhage (21.9%), congestive heart failure (17.1%), pneumothorax (14.6%) and intraventricular haemorrhage (7.3%).
  • (14) Conservative management using tetracycline sclerosis was performed with good results in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and recurrent pneumothorax.
  • (15) Patients with pleural effusion, pneumothorax, or ascites showed a significant increase in plasma arginine vasopressin levels, and thoracocentesis or paracentesis resulted in a decrease in these levels.
  • (16) We recommend this skin incision for young patients with pneumothorax if the chest CT scan confirms that the bullae or blebs are localized to the apex of superior segment of the lower lobe.
  • (17) Heart rate rose (p less than 0.05) at a pneumothorax of 1,500 ml.
  • (18) Four of the patients (14 percent) developed a pneumothorax following institution of high PEEP therapy.
  • (19) Perforation of the oesophagus, as well as a pneumothorax are described as complications of the use of a nasogastric feeding tube.
  • (20) Readers were prompted by the response forms to evaluate images for the possible occurrence of interstitial diseases, nodules, or pneumothorax.

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