What's the difference between emphysema and emphysematous?

Emphysema


Definition:

  • (n.) A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
  • (2) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
  • (3) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.
  • (4) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.
  • (5) On HRCT, sequential changes from early edema to development of emphysema were noted.
  • (6) Chronic bronchitis, mucous hypersecretion, and liver disease, as well as a family history of emphysema, are associated conditions.
  • (7) Prior sublethal challenge with viable HC did not cause prolonged illness or increased mortality in the setting of emphysema.
  • (8) The thigh and hip manifestations can obscure the primary intra-abdominal process either due to the obvious emphysema or to the obtunded abdominal signs secondary to associated neuropathy.
  • (9) Macroscopic and microscopic pulmonary changes were predominantly those of oedema and emphysema.
  • (10) Cadmium fumes and compounds have been found to be instrumental in the development of some cases of chronic bronchitis and emphysema in Sweden.
  • (11) A 5-year-old Thoroughbred gelding was examined because of a small axillary wound sustained 5 days earlier and had resulted in extensive subcutaneous emphysema.
  • (12) In addition, there were 117 hemorrhages (.98% of the cases reported), 22 burns or mechanical injuries of the gastrointestinal tract (.19%), 26 perforations of the uterus (.22%), 44 infections (.37%), 25 skin burns (.21%), and 24 cases of skin or organ emphysema (.2%).
  • (13) However, select strains of E. coli may cause or contribute to intestinal emphysema in swine.
  • (14) Three new and 19 previously reported cases of thigh emphysema secondary to bowel disease are reviewed.
  • (15) This report adds to the number of recorded cases and emphasizes the potential for emphysema with the use of high pressure dental instruments.
  • (16) Three had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, 2 had pulmonary emphysema, 1 had bronchiolitis and the other had a sequelae of pulmonary tuberculosis.
  • (17) Because of the great number of possible irritants and responses, the differentiation of bronchial and extrabronchial obstruction is of great importance for the elderly patient (bronchitis plus emphysema?).
  • (18) One adult died of liver disease and three of the emphysema patients had liver abnormalities at post mortem.
  • (19) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is defined in this chapter, and the relation between its two major components, (a) chronic bronchitis and emphysema and (b) nonremitting asthma, is discussed.
  • (20) Lorry drivers showed excess deaths from stomach cancer (SMR 141, p less than 0.05), lung cancer (SMR 159, p less than 0.05), bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma (SMR 143, p less than 0.05), a pattern not evident among taxi drivers.

Emphysematous


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, emphysema; swelled; bloated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Despite small differences in the mean linear intercept seen at 1 and at 16 months, both male and female tsk mice were found to be similarly susceptible to the development of the emphysematous lesion.
  • (2) Thus, in these mice, the emphysematous lesion develops very rapidly between 4 days and 1 month of life and shows the characteristics of an elastolytic process which is still ongoing at 2 months of age.
  • (3) Such emphysematous lung has rarely before been reported as a CT finding, and lung hypervascularity has not, to the authors' knowledge, been reported.
  • (4) In the emphysematous group nine patients who died from chronic airways obstruction had a larger mean muscle fibre area than the nine patients with non-fatal respiratory disease.
  • (5) The groups reacted differently to beta adrenergic stimulation: in bronchitic and fibrotic rats the cardiac index was augmented, whereas in emphysematous ones the increase proved to be smaller.
  • (6) Emphysematous renal infection is a severe, rare complication of urinary tract infection associated with gas production, which frequently causes renal destruction and has a high mortality rate.
  • (7) The deficiency is accompanied by pulmonary manifestations of the destructive emphysematic type.
  • (8) Emphysematous gastritis associated with gram-negative sepsis is described in a leukemic child on chemotherapy and steroids.
  • (9) We found the wall of the gallbladder emphysematous and gangrenous, the gallbladder was distended and contained purulent material, but no stones.
  • (10) The choice of an asymmetric P - V relation reflects several properties of emphysematous lungs such as airflow limitation and higher expiratory resistance.
  • (11) The volumes of individual centrilobular emphysematous spaces were calculated at each distending pressure from measurements made on these bronchograms and pressure-volume curves were constructed for each space.
  • (12) After admission, severe respiratory distress and emphysematous change of the right lung on the chest X-ray developed progressively.
  • (13) Pulmonary functions, morphology, and morphometry were examined in rats at 3, 7, and 10 weeks after a single intratracheal administration of 6.5 units of porcine pancreatic elastase in order to obtain a model of pulmonary emphysema which would be suitable for studying the responses of emphysematous lungs to atmospheric pollutants.
  • (14) There was no detectable hemorrhagic or emphysematous reaction with the inactivated 3H-methylated elastase, and this material was cleared from the lungs 11 times faster than the corresponding enzymatically active high dose of 3H-methylated elastase and 18 times faster than the corresponding enzymatically active low dose of 3H-methylated elastase.
  • (15) Four patients had restrictive pleuritis and one patient was operated due to insufficient expansion of the lung after operation for emphysematous bullae.
  • (16) The authors report on a very rare case of an isolated primary nodular pulmonary amyloidosis with multiple emphysematous bullae in Sjögren's syndrome.
  • (17) A case of emphysematous cholecystitis is presented in which computerized tomography helped to confirm the diagnosis and the extent of disease preoperatively.
  • (18) Malnutrition and weight loss commonly occur in patients with the emphysematous type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), despite normal energy intakes.
  • (19) In these animals the aggravated emphysematous changes induced by papain should be ascribed to the cumulation of PAM and their increased activity in the lungs.
  • (20) Emphysematous patients that were once treated with double lung transplantation can now also be treated with single lung transplantation.

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