NSIP is a diagnosis of exclusion, since numerous other inflammatory and fibrotic processes involving the lung may have NSIP-like areas, including hypersensitivity pneumonia, UIP, DAD, LIP, DIP, infectious processes, and aspiration pneumonia, among many others.
White-collar definition, belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes. See more.
Definition of Elizabethan collar. 1  1 : 2ruff 1. 2  2 : a typically cone-shaped veterinary device of stiff material (such as plastic) placed about the neck of an animal and usually a cat or dog to prevent it from licking, biting, or scratching a wound or injury or to stop obsessive licking or grooming âcalled also e-collar.