atelectasis
noun/æ.tɪˈlɛk.tə.sɪs/
Etymology From Ancient Greek ἀτελής (atelḗs, “incomplete”) + ἔκτασις (éktasis, “extension”), from ἐκτείνω (ekteínō, “to extend”). By surface analysis, atel- + ectasis.
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Medicine, Sciences The collapse of a part of or the whole lung caused by inner factors rather than a pneumothorax.
- Atelectasis means a non-expansion of the lungs.2009, Jennifer Worth, Farewell to the East End, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, page 46:
- Derived terms
- aeroatelectasis, atelectatic, atelectrauma, fibroatelectasis
- Related terms
- atelectotrauma, bronchiectasis, dystelectasis, ectasia, ectasis, microatelectasis