what does extrathoracic mean?
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having an extra thorax\n the portion of an insects body between head and the adbomen.
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Pneumomoultramicroscopicsillic ovolcanoconiosis. It means "A lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust". I found this word from a student I know, and it has 45 letters.\n\nOr, if not in English, the Swedish word "nordöstersjökustartilleriflyg spaningssimulatoranläggingsma terielunderhållsuppföljningss ystemdiskussionsinläggsförber edelsearbeten", which means "Prepatory work on the contribution to the discussion on the maintaining system of support of the material of the aviation survey devide within the northeast part of the coast artillery of the Baltic", I found in the Book of Guinness World Records 2006, as the longest word in any language. The longer a word is, the stranger its meaning, so i guess this counts.\n\nNOTE: The english word is 45 letters long, and the swedish word is 130 letters long, so I needed to add a few extra spaces so the word wouldn't be caught up in an ellipsus.
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It is a general term not specific. It may mean any acute condition related to heart and lungs.\n\nHeart and Lungs are very much inter-related. If any disease affects the heart, the lung is also affected, and vice versa. \n\nThere are certain medical conditions are are Acute and Affect both heart and Lungs e.g. \n->Acute cardiopulmonary Arrest (i.e. sudden stopage of heart and lungs activity like death). \n->Myocardial Infarction with Acute Pulmonary Edema.\n->ARDS (Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome with Systemic Shock)\n->Pulmonary Embolism with Systemic Shock\n->Pneumothorax with Shock\n->Cardiac Temponade\n(if you want the detail of above medical condition you can visit:\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html\nThere are also many other Acute Medical Emergencies those involve the cardiopulmonary abnormalities. \n\nIf you are not a medical person and to answer briefly, i would like to say that it is any sudden abnormality realted to heart and lungs.
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in this case "extra" means "beyond" as in "beyond ordinary". it is greater than ordinary.
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I don't even know what that means. Sorry. A little more details would be nice. Thanks!
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Sometimes fluid accumulates between the thin, transparent membrane (pleura) covering your lungs and the membrane that lines the inner surface of your chest wall — a condition known as pleural effusion\n\nNormally, the pleurae are silky smooth, allowing your lungs to slide easily along your chest wall when you breathe in and out. But when the pleurae around your lungs become inflamed (pleurisy) — often as a result of pneumonia — fluid can accumulate and may become infected (empyema). In that case, you may have a tube placed between your ribs to drain the fluid or, occasionally, a surgical procedure to clear out some of the infected material.
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el·lip·tic   adj.  3. a. Of or relating to extreme economy of oral or written expression. b. Marked by deliberate obscurity of style or expression.\n\nelliptical  adj 1: containing or characterized by ellipsis; "the clause of comparison is often elliptical"- G.O.Curme [syn: elliptic] 2: rounded like an egg [syn: egg-shaped, elliptic, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate] 3: characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements; "the dialogue is elliptic and full of dark hints"; "the explanation was concise, even elliptical to the verge of obscurity"- H.O.Taylor [syn: elliptic]\n\nhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=elliptical&db=*
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Could be Bronchitis, maybe Pleurisy. You could go to your doc and get a chest xray. This will show any fluids, and enlargements, however pleurisy will not show on an xray. Your doc can tell if you have pleurisy by listening to your lungs. Pleurisy usually is a one sided pain though. Sounds like some kind a respiratory infection. Good Luck!
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Well, there are two definitions of the mediastinum and if you add "plasty" to it it ought to mean plastic surgery on the mediastinum. Which mediastinum depends on the context. \n\nmediastinum:\n\n1 : the space in the chest between the pleural sacs of the lungs that contains all the viscera of the chest except the lungs and pleurae; also : this space with its contents\n2 : a mass of connective tissue at the back of the testis being continuous externally with the tunica albuginea and internally with the interlobular septa and enclosing the rete testis
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Vital capacity is the total amount of air that we can exhale forcefully. To calculate vital capacity, first you add your tidal volume and the extra amount of air beyond the tidal volume that your lungs can hold (the IRV). So, so far:\n\nVC = TV + IRV\n\nWhen you take the deepest breath you can and then exhale, you exhale first your IRV, and then your TV, but then you have even more air in your lungs that you can exhale if you need to. This is called the ERV. When you are measuring how much your lungs can exhale when they are FORCED to, ERV is part of the equation. So now:\n\nVC = TV + IRV + ERV\n\nThe reason you include ERV is because normally you don't exhale that amount of air (normally you will only exhale your tidal volume and, if you take a slight deep breath, some of your IRV). However, if you attempt to completely get all the air out of your lungs, you will also exhale your ERV. Since the definition, in general, of vital capacity is the total amount of air you can forcefully exhale, ERV must be a part of the equation.\n\nSide note: what is NEVER a part of the equation is residual capacity, RC. This is the amount of air in the lungs that you can't force out, no matter how hard you try. It is about 1 L.
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b)less,because while you exercising your lungs needs more extra oxygen,makes your body need to breath more air
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It might be "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (which appears in the Oxford English Dictionary), unless you want to count names of diseases (such as "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," defined by the OED as 'a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word'), places (such as "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch," a village in Wales), chemical compounds (apparently there is one that is 1,913 letters long), and also a few words found only in Joyce's Finnegans Wake.\n\nNote: for some unknown reason Yahoo answers will not permit the full posting of the full spelling of these very long words. but you can find the spellings at the website below.
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The  external intercostal muscles are between the ribs and they are primarily assist the diaphragm during inhalation. The internal intercostal muscles are used during forceful exhalation.   While the diaphragm is the primary muscle used in respiration, accessory muscles such as the scalenes, sternocliedomastoid and platysmus are also used when breathing is labored.
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A very rare form of cancer linked to asbestos exposure that occurs in the sac lining of the chest (pleural mesothelioma) or abdomen (peritoneal mesothelioma), or the lining of the heart (pericardial mesothelioma).\nHope that helps I gave you several links to information as well.\n~A~\nhttp://www.umm.edu/thoracic/mesothelioma.html
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I think if it is fluid around the heart, he probably has what is called pericardial effusion. This is accumulation of fluid in between the 2 membranes that surround the heart.This can be caused by many things, which include:\n\n1. Viral Infections:  Coxsackie, influenza, Epstein-Barr, echoviruses, varicella, HIV, etc\n\n2. Bacterial: Usually from infections of the lung extending to the pericardial membranes.\n\n3. Tuberculosis\n\n4. Uremia: commonly seen in Renal Failure.\n\n5. Autoimmune causes: like SLE\n\n6. Neoplastic: Due to extension of a malignancy from the lung to the pericardial membranes. Also malignancies like  breast cancer, Renal cell cancer, hodgkin's disease and lymphomas may invade the pericardial membranes and produce pericardial effusion.\n \n7. Drugs/ Radiation\n\nSince the causes are too many, it would be difficult toguess what is causing it in your uncle. The difficulty that he has in breathing could be due to the increased pain during inspiration that is seen with the inflammation of these 2 membranes. It could also be due to a lung disease or accumulation of fluid around his lungs (pleural effusion) too (just like the fluid around his heart).
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aerobic means your taking in more air into your lungs and your muscles are using that extra oxygen to keep moving. Caffeine doesn't do either of that so doesn't count as aerobic exercise, sorry.
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It means that there is a trivial amount of backflow of blood thru both of these valves. The abnormal flow of blood is backwards from the ventricles back to the atria, I use the pleural because it involves 2 valves. Only you know if this medical information will keep you off the force, and since it is so small, it may not even show up as a heart murmur. To put your mind at ease you would want to talk to a doctor, but it does not sound like it is a problem currently. Check back when you get older as heart valves tend to get stiffer, and calcify with age and this may become a larger leak as you age.