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atelectasia

Portuguese, noun/a.te.le.ki.taˈzi.ɐ/

atelectasia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “atelectasis (lung collapse caused by inner factors)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does atelectasia mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineatelectasis (lung collapse caused by inner factors)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of atelectasia

  • atelectasias plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce atelectasia?

  • Brazil /a.te.le.ki.taˈzi.ɐ/
  • Brazil /a.te.lek.taˈzi.ɐ/
  • Portugal /ɐ.tɨ.lɨk.tɐˈzi.ɐ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to atelectasia

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is atelectasia in Portuguese?

atelectasia appears about once in every 37 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).