Synonyms for "empyema" (19 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (4)

asthmablack lungbronchitiscold

Strong matches (6)

croupemphysemaflugrippehay feverinfluenza

Related words (9)

laryngitispleurisypneumoniaquinsyrheumsilicosissnifflestonsilitiswhooping cough

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

1 entries

inflammatory disease

Related terms

1 entries

pyo

derived

2 entries

empyematousempyemic

has context

1 entries

medicine

is a

1 entries

inflammatory disease

related to

4 entries

abscessanatomicalcavitypus

Translations

16 translations across 16 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries

• ἐμπύημα noun (collection of pus)

Catalan

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• empiema noun (collection of pus)

Chinese

1 entries

• 積膿 /积脓 noun (collection of pus)

Dutch

1 entries

• empyeem noun (collection of pus)

Estonian

1 entries

• empüeem noun (collection of pus)

Finnish

1 entries

• empyeema noun (collection of pus)

French

1 entries

• empyème noun (collection of pus)

German

1 entries

• Empyem noun (collection of pus)

Greek

1 entries

• εμπύημα noun (collection of pus)

Italian

1 entries

• empiema noun (collection of pus)

Japanese

1 entries

• 蓄膿症 noun (collection of pus)

Polish

1 entries

• ropniak noun (collection of pus)

Portuguese

1 entries

• empiema noun (collection of pus)

Spanish

1 entries

• empiema noun (collection of pus)

Swedish

1 entries

• empyem noun (collection of pus)

Turkish

1 entries

• ampiyem noun (collection of pus)

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