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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pulmonary
adjective
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■ 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.
▪ An echocardiogram showed dilatation of the pulmonary artery and tricuspid regurgitation.
disease
▪ Think of a medical student attending a course in the X-ray diagnosis of pulmonary diseases.
▪ Symptomatic coccidioidomycosis has a wide clinical spectrum, ranging from mild influenza-like illness to serious pulmonary disease to widespread dissemination.
▪ Patients had more consistent benefit from oxygen than hypoxaemic patients with such pulmonary disease in previous studies.
▪ There are wards for children with pulmonary disease and nervous disorders.
embolism
▪ They said she had pulmonary embolism and 7 days later, she died.
▪ One patient in the control group died of pulmonary embolism.
▪ Doctors were forced to amputate her right leg, but Jennifer died when a blood clot caused a pulmonary embolism.
▪ He was admitted to the general medical service at Pinderfields General Hospital with a provisional diagnosis of pulmonary embolism.
▪ One patient died because of pulmonary embolism during the postoperative period.
hypertension
▪ Decisions regarding appropriate organ transplantation may depend on whether pulmonary hypertension is primary or secondary to portal hypertension.
▪ Primary pulmonary hypertension is extremely rare, afflicting about 1, 500 people in the United States.
▪ ET-1-like immunoreactivity and mRNA were also present in pulmonary vascular endothelial cells, particularly in specimens from patients with pulmonary hypertension.
▪ Most patients taking the pills do not develop pulmonary hypertension, he said.
▪ Some researchers worry, however, that some cases of pulmonary hypertension may have been overlooked.
▪ These include the more firmly established association between the drugs and a potentially fatal lung disease, primary pulmonary hypertension.
tuberculosis
▪ First, our population was limited to patients with sputum-smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis.
▪ The attention of the council was drawn to an anomaly in the existing arrangements for patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
▪ One patient had recently finished a course of treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis.
▪ These conditions include pulmonary tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, streptococcal septicaemia and various other diseases.
▪ Soon, however, he developed pulmonary tuberculosis and was invalided out.
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▪ First, our population was limited to patients with sputum-smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis.
▪ Mortality is 3-4%, mainly owing to opportunistic infections and pulmonary emboli.
▪ Most patients taking the pills do not develop pulmonary hypertension, he said.
▪ Some clinicians and microbiologists continue to believe that P cepacia is a marker for, rather than the cause of, pulmonary deterioration.
▪ Some researchers worry, however, that some cases of pulmonary hypertension may have been overlooked.
▪ Symptomatic coccidioidomycosis has a wide clinical spectrum, ranging from mild influenza-like illness to serious pulmonary disease to widespread dissemination.
▪ These include the more firmly established association between the drugs and a potentially fatal lung disease, primary pulmonary hypertension.
▪ They said she had pulmonary embolism and 7 days later, she died.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pulmonary

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 artery. See the Note under Artery.

Pulmonary

Pulmonary \Pul"mo*na*ry\, n. [Cf. F. pulmonaire. See Pulmonary, a. ] (Bot.) Lungwort.
--Ainsworth.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pulmonary

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, to swim" (see pluvial).\n

\nThe notion perhaps is from the fact that, when thrown into a pot of water, lungs of a slaughtered animal float, while the heart, liver, etc., do not (compare Middle English lights "the lungs," literally "the light (in weight) organs"). Also see pneumo-.

Wiktionary
pulmonary

a. Pertaining to, having, or affecting the lungs.

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pulmonary

adj. relating to or affecting the lungs; "pulmonary disease" [syn: pneumonic, pulmonic]

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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.