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How did they come up with the name atelectasis?

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Atelectasis, which means decreased or absent air in a entire lung, resulting in loss of lung volume, comes from the Greek "ateles" (meaning incomplete) plus "ektasis" (meaning extension, stretching out, expansion).

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