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haemothorax

haemothorax is the alternative form of hemothorax.

Meaning of hemothorax

Noun

hemothorax (countable and uncountable, plural hemothoraxes or hemothoraces)

  1. A condition resulting from accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity.

Origin of haemothorax

From haemo- + thorax.

Questions about haemothorax

What is haemothorax the alternative form of?
Haemothorax is the alternative form of hemothorax.

Words near haemothorax in the dictionary

  1. haemostatics
  2. haemostats
  3. haemotachometer
  4. haemotachometers
  5. haemotherapy
  6. haemothorax
  7. haemotologist
  8. haemotologists
  9. haemotoxic
  10. haemotoxicity
  11. haemotoxilin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haemothorax (page history and authors); hemothorax (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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