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Definition of Mediastina
1. mediastinum [n] - See also: mediastinum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mediastina
Literary usage of Mediastina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the lungs by Walter Hayle Walshe (1860)
"I have seen in the mediastina tumors, composed of wimple exudation-matter, ...
When a tumor occupies the mediastina, and encroaches, as it commonly does, ..."
2. A System of surgery: Theoretical and Practical by Timothy Holmes (1870)
"Wounds of the mediastina generally compromise the parts contained therein, such
as the large vessels, nerves, oesophagus, &c. ; they are, therefore, ..."
3. The Pocket anatomy by Charles Herbert Fagge (1908)
"Relations:— THE mediastina. The superior mediastinum is the space above the
pericardium extending upwards to the root of the neck. Boundaries:— Below. ..."
4. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pathological Museum of the Middlesex Hospital by James Kingston Fowler, John Bland-Sutton, Middlesex Hospital Medical School Museum (1884)
"TUMOURS OP THE LUNGS AND mediastina. SARCOMA. 1313. 1314. LOCALISED CANCER. 1315.
A left Lung, with the mediastinum. Occupying the mediastinum ..."
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