Medical Term:
collapse
Pronunciation: kō-laps′
Definition:
- A condition of extreme prostration, similar or identical to hypovolemic shock and due to the same causes.
- A state of profound physical depression.
- A falling together of the walls of a structure.
- The failure of a physiologic system.
- The falling away of an organ from its surrounding structure, collapse of the lung.
[L. col-labor, pp. -lapsus, to fall together]
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