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pneumococcal empyema (medicine)


pneumococcal empyema
Infection of the pleural cavity by Streptococcus pneumoniae, the pneumococcus, with pus formation.

Pulsating empyema, a large, tense collection of pus in the pleural cavity through which the cardiac pulsations are transmitted to the chest wall.

Streptococcal empyema, purulent exudation into the pleural cavity caused by infection with Streptococcus haemolyticus.


Shirer, William L(awrence) (sh)




born Feb. 23, 1904, Chicago, Ill., U.S.
died Dec. 28, 1993, Boston, Mass.

U.S. journalist, historian, and novelist.

He served as a foreign correspondent and Radio broadcaster in Europe and India in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s. Berlin Diary (1941) collects his impressions of European political events. He was blacklisted in the McCarthy era as a leftist sympathizer. He is best known for The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1969, National Book Award), a massive study of Nazi Germany. His Other major historical work is The Collapse of the Third Republic (1969), a study of France. Gandhi (1979) recalls interviews conducted in the 1930s.