Factors which affect ventilatory function during surgical pneumothorax.
1962
J J BONICA, and
H D GREEN, and
J H TAKAMURA, and
D N GOODSON, and
T Q ZIEGLER, and
J F WILSON
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MeSH Term
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D011030
Pneumothorax
An accumulation of air or gas in the PLEURAL CAVITY, which may occur spontaneously or as a result of trauma or a pathological process. The gas may also be introduced deliberately during PNEUMOTHORAX, ARTIFICIAL.
The act of breathing with the LUNGS, consisting of INHALATION, or the taking into the lungs of the ambient air, and of EXHALATION, or the expelling of the modified air which contains more CARBON DIOXIDE than the air taken in (Blakiston's Gould Medical Dictionary, 4th ed.). This does not include tissue respiration (
Breathing
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