Usually means: Chronic lung disease, destroys alveoli.
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  1. emphysema: Merriam-Webster
  2. emphysema: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. emphysema: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. emphysema: Collins English Dictionary
  5. emphysema: Vocabulary.com
  6. Emphysema, emphysema: Wordnik
  7. emphysema: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. emphysema: Wiktionary
  9. emphysema: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. emphysema: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. emphysema: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. emphysema: Dictionary.com
  13. emphysema: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. emphysema: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Emphysema: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Emphysema: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. emphysema: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. emphysema: Rhymezone
  19. Emphysema: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. emphysema: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. emphysema: FreeDictionary.org
  22. emphysema: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. emphysema: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. emphysema: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. emphysema: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. emphysema: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Emphysema: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Emphysema: Merck Manuals
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  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. emphysema: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. emphysema: Medical dictionary
  10. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  11. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  12. Emphysema: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Emphysema: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary
  2. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (emphysema)

noun:  (pathology) An abnormal accumulation of air or other gas in tissues, most commonly the lungs.
noun:  (medicine) Ellipsis of pulmonary emphysema, a chronic lung disease, one type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [A chronic lung disease characterised by an abnormal increase in the size of the air spaces, resulting in laboured breathing and caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, most commonly tobacco smoke.]

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