Modifies a noun

• embolism: You may also have your lungs scanned to check for a pulmonary embolism.

• edema: Pulmonary edema The build-up of fluid in the lungs caused by the heart not working properly.

• hypertension: Pulmonary hypertension refers to high blood pressure in the arteries taking blood from the heart to the lungs.

• embolus: A large pulmonary embolus which blocks the main blood vessels to the lungs will be fatal.

• tuberculosis: Regrettably, toward the end of his service, he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis.

• artery: The only thing doctors had to do was balloon the stent in his pulmonary artery.