a. Med. [f. as prec. + -OUS.] Of the nature of or like emphysema; pertaining to emphysema.
1764. Watson, in Phil. Trans., LIV. 241. The whole substance of the lungs was in a state truly emphysematous.
1870. A. Flint, Physiol. Man, viii. (1873), 235. Some observers have found the corresponding lung … emphysematous.
