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PLEURAL-EFFUSION


check date: 10/06/2002
checker: Pamela
origination date: 06/06/2002
originator: Clara
subject field: medicine: disease

Conceptual Structures
ISARESPIRATORY-SYSTEM-DISEASE
ANCESTORSALL
CHANGE-STATE
CHANGE-STATE-ANIMAL
DISEASE-EVENT
EVENT
LIVING-EVENT
PHYSICAL-EVENT
RESPIRATORY-SYSTEM-DISEASE


English
pleural effusionterm type: main entry term
reliability code: 10
part of speech: noun
number: singular
definition: accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity which is called malignant pleural effusion when it is due to cancer. Pleural effusion may also be the result of cancers of the breast, gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, ovary, or metastases that have spread to the lung or the pleural cavity. (en)

Spanish
derrame pleuralterm type: main entry term
reliability code: 10
part of speech: noun
number: singular
gender: masculine
definition: acumulación de líquido en la cavidad pleural que se denomina derrame pleural maligno si lo origina un cáncer. El derrame pleural puede derivar del cáncer de mama, cáncer de tracto gastrointestinal, cáncer de páncreas y cáncer de ovarios o de metástasis que se han diseminado al pulmón o a la cavidad pleural. (es)