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adj. - Relating to or resembling or being a condition characterized by air-filled expansions like blisters in interstitial or subcutaneous tissues

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Usage examples (28)
  • Give the cause and treatment of emphysematous anthrax.
  • The air vesicles were emphysematous, the lungs were pale.
  • The term heaves is applied almost wholly to an emphysematous condition of the lungs.
  • The upper lobe partially excavated and ragged; the inferior lobe infiltrated and emphysematous.
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