ATELECTASIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("atelectasis" is a kind of...):

pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)

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