Atelectasis, primary: See: Primary atelectasis.
Primary atelectasis: Failure of the lung to expand fully at birth. In contrast to secondary atelectasis in which there is partial or complete collapse of a lung that ...
primary atelectasis n. Failure of the lungs to expand after birth, as in stillborn infants or in liveborn infants who die before respiration is established. Also ...
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See also postoperative atelectasis, primary atelectasis. atelectasis [at″ĕ-lek´tah-sis] a collapsed or airless state of the lung, which may be acute or chronic, and ...
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