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lung capacities

n. (lung capacity English)

Usage examples of "lung capacities".

This kind of mutation may have to drastically change an individual's size, weight, and respiratory and circulatory systems - to produce massive lung capacities and gaping nostrils to take in a thinner atmosphere - or stouter, stronger limbs for a world with more powerful gravity.

Young children with small lung capacities will be the first to go, too starved for air to cry, their skin turning blue as they go into irreversible coma.