apicolysis

apicolysis
Surgical collapse of the upper portion of the lung by the operative detachment of the parietal pleura allowing inferomedial displacement of the pulmonary apex. [apico- + G. lysis, destruction]

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api·col·y·sis .ap-i-'käl-ə-səs n, pl -y·ses -.sēz collapse of the apex of a lung induced by surgical means in order to obliterate its cavity esp. in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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