what does atelectasis mean?
ATELECTASIS as NOUN
- Meaning
- collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants)
- also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth
Hypernyms(s) atelectasis is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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