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Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀτελής (atelḗs, “incomplete”) + ἔκτασις (éktasis, “extension”), from ἐκτείνω (ekteínō, “to extend”). By surface analysis, atel- + ectasis.
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Noun
atelectasis (countable and uncountable, plural atelectases)
- (medicine) The collapse of a part of or the whole lung caused by inner factors rather than a pneumothorax.
2009, Jennifer Worth, Farewell to the East End, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, page 46:Atelectasis means a non-expansion of the lungs.
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lung collapse caused by inner factors
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