empyema

1. 1.

   a collection of pus in a body cavity (especially in the lung cavity)

   Broaderinflammatory disease

   Narrowerpurulent pleurisy

Other forms of empyema

plural

empyemas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about empyema

What does empyema mean?

empyema means "a collection of pus in a body cavity (especially in the lung cavity)".

How many syllables are in empyema?

empyema has 3 syllables: em-pye-ma. The stress falls on "em".

Is empyema a common word?

empyema is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.