| Macleod's rheumatism | Rheumatoid arthritis with abundant serous effusion in the affected joints. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Macleod's syndrome | A state in which the roentgenographic density of one lung (or one lobe) is markedly less than the density of the other(s) because of the presence of air trapped during expiration. Synonym: Macleod's syndrome, Swyer-James syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Macleod, Roderick | <person> Scottish physician, 1795-1852. See: Macleod's rheumatism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Macleod, William Mathieson | <person> British physician, 1911-1977. See: Macleod's syndrome, Swyer-James-MacLeod syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Swyer-James-MacLeod syndrome | <radiology> Unilateral hyperlucent lung, Macleod syndrome, may be bilateral, hyperlucency and air-trapping, decreased pulmonary arteries, paucity of bronchial subdivisions with or without proximal bronchiectasis, history of early and recurrent lower respiratory tract infections, possibly secondary to obliterative bronchitis/bronchiolitis (adenovirus?) (12 Dec 1998) |
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