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pulmonary
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or affecting the lungs; "pulmonary disease" [syn: pneumonic , pulmonic ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1704, from French pulmonaire and directly from Latin pulmonarius "of the lungs," from pulmo (genitive pulmonis ) "lung," cognate with Greek pleumon "lung," Old Church Slavonic plusta , Lithuanian plauciai "lungs," all from PIE *pleu- "to flow, to float, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pulmonary \Pul"mo*na*ry\, a. [L. pulmonarius, from pulmo, -onis, a lung; of uncertain origin, perh. named from its lightness, and akin to E. float: cf. F. pulmonaire. Cf. Pneumonia .] Of or pertaining to the lungs; affecting the lungs; pulmonic. Pulmonary ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN artery ▪ Often this blocks a pulmonary artery , causing serious illness or death. ▪ Hybridisation signals were also detected in the vascular endothelium of pulmonary arteries , especially those with severe arteriopathy. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to, having, or affecting the lungs.
Usage examples of pulmonary.
The lungs are held in position by the root, which is formed by the pulmonary arteries, veins, nerves, and the bronchial tubes.
The branches of the pulmonary artery lie alongside of, and divide similarly to, the bronchial tubes.
This blood leaves the lungs partly by the bronchial veins and partly by the pulmonary veins.
Demonstrate the trachea, bronchi, and the bronchial tubes, and the general arrangement of pulmonary arteries and veins.
Who, says the notable humourist, in allusion to this Book, who can studiously travel through sheets of leaves now capable of a stretch from the Lizard to the last few poor pulmonary snips and shreds of leagues dancing on their toes for cold, explorers tell us, and catching breath by good luck, like dogs at bones about a table, on the edge of the Pole?
Her aortic arch, pulmonary artery, heart, and pericardial sac were penetrated.
Discharges from the ear, bronchitis, chronic inflammation of the intestinal mucous membrane, and chronic diarrhea are frequently due to scrofula, while pulmonary consumption is unanimously regarded as a purely scrofulous affectation.
Each of the abnormalities that defined the disease: ventricular septum defect, stenosis of the pulmonary valve, a displaced aorta, and an enlarged right ventricle were present.
I find that the stenosis of the pulmonary valve is still apparent in an X-ray.
Taking water into the lungs washes out the surfactant coating and can lead to pulmonary oedema.
The ductus arteriosus is a small blood vessel that in the fetus joins the aorta to the pulmonary artery.
Demonstrate the trachea, bronchi, and the bronchial tubes, and the general arrangement of pulmonary arteries and veins.
All these conditions indicate that a few exposures and severe colds are often sufficient to produce a train of symptoms, which terminate in pulmonary or other strumous affections.
Clayton Miller, the man whose severe pulmonary edema he and Steven Josephson had reversed by removing almost a unit of blood.
It was the point of triage for all manner of illnesses that rolled down the mountainside to their doorstep: broken bones, pulmonary and cerebral edema, frostbite, heart conditions, dysentery, snow blindness, and all sorts of infections, including STDs.