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PULSATING EMPYEMA

\pˈʌlse͡ɪtɪŋ ɛmpɪˈɛmə], \pˈʌlse‍ɪtɪŋ ɛmpɪˈɛmə], \p_ˈʌ_l_s_eɪ_t_ɪ_ŋ ɛ_m_p_ɪ__ˈɛ_m_ə]\

Definitions of PULSATING EMPYEMA

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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One which transmits the heart-pulsations to the chest-wall.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

A form of empyema of the thorax in which the cardiac pulsations cause a movement of the chest walls.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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