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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
empyema /ˌɛmpʌɪˈiːmə/

▶noun Medicine the collection of pus in a body cavity, especially in the pleural cavity.

– origin ME: via late L. from Gk empuēma, from empuein ‘suppurate’.

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