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Definition of Aspiration pneumonia

1. Noun. Inflammation of the lungs caused by inhaling or choking on vomitus; may occur during unconsciousness (anesthesia or drunkenness or seizure or cardiac arrest).

Medical Definition of Aspiration pneumonia

1. Refers to the inappropriate passage of food, water, stomach acid, vomit or another foreign material into the lungs. Aspiration, particularly involving gastric acid, will often result in a serious pneumonia. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aspiration Pneumonia

Literary usage of Aspiration pneumonia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of the Bronchi, Lungs and Pleura, by Friedrich Albin Hoffmann, Ottomar Rosenbach, Emanuel Aufrecht, John Herr Musser, Alfred Stengel (1902)
"aspiration pneumonia. A FEW remarks will have to precede the description of this ... Hitherto aspiration pneumonia has generally been erroneously identified ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"aspiration pneumonia.—aspiration pneumonia, due to the entrance of foreign substances into the lung, following ether anesthesia, or associated with ..."

3. A Text-book of Diseases of the Chest: Pericardium, Heart, Aorta, Bronchi by Egbert Guernsey Rankin (1905)
"aspiration pneumonia. SYNONYM.—Deglutition Pneumonia. aspiration pneumonia is that form of pneumonic process which results from the accidental entrance of ..."

4. A Text-book of pathology by Alfred Stengel (1898)
"... of the mouth and pharynx, in which irritating particles are carried to the finer bronchi by inspiration (aspiration-pneumonia; deglutition-pneumonia}. ..."

5. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1899)
"... with falling barometer and much moisture in the air, there follows a rise in temperature, south winds, and snow or rain. aspiration pneumonia. ..."

6. Modern surgery, general and operative by John Chalmers Da Costa (1910)
"Aspiration-pneumonia may develop when there is difficulty in swallowing from any cause, ... \Yhen suppuration results from aspiration-pneumonia or ..."

7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"Occasionally an aspiration pneumonia complicating plague is due to the plague bacillus itself. This is particularly apt to occur if there be ulcerated ..."

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