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11 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth
originFrom Ancient Greek ἀτελής (atelḗs, “incomplete”) + ἔκτασις (éktasis, “extension”), from ἐκτείνω (ekteínō, “to extend”). By surface analysis, atel- + ectasis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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