gray hepatization

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gray hepatization

The second stage of hepatization of lung tissue in pneumonia, when the yellowish-gray exudate is beginning to degenerate before breaking down.

gray hepatization.

See hepatization.

gray hepatization

A phase of lobar pneumonia, typically occurring at the 1^st wk of infection, at which time the lobe is covered with fibrin; the cut surface is gray, dry, and granular, the alveoli are filled with fibrinous exudate composed of degenerating PMNs and inflammation is interconnected through the pores of Kohn. Cf Gray infiltration, Red hepatization.

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