lung

Converse of object

• puncture: However his career was nearly curtailed by a punctured lung suffered against Hull City in January 1999.
• inflate: Abdominal breathing inflates the lungs from the bottom up, allowing a much fuller breath.
• irritate: NOx damages and irritates lungs, causing bronchitis and pneumonia.
• affect: Lupus commonly affects the lungs and has been reported in half of all patients with lupus.
• fill: Hence the observer feels the pain, the anguish or the smoke filled lungs and passes that memory on to their progeny.
• enter: So when you dive, the air would enter the lung under pressure of depth.

Adjective modifier

• collapsed: The operation went well, however I developed a collapsed lung, which caused the delay.
• diseased: Diseased lungs may have marked mismatch between ventilation and perfusion.
• green: Project Director Dave Bookless showed us a fascinating 75 acres of green lung in an extremely built-up area.
• left: In January 1985 Princess Margaret had a section of her left lung removed in a cancer scare.

Modifies a noun

• cancer: Then choose lung cancer from the drop down menu of cancer types.
• disease: Some who might develop severe lung disease later in life may show only minor symptoms now.
• transplant: Of the first thirty-nine patients who had lung transplants, only two lived longer than two months.
• tissue: Long term damage to the lung tissue may lead to death from progressive pulmonary fibrosis.
• function: Lung function can be reduced for a number of reasons.
• carcinoma: AB - The genetic lesions that lead to the development of small cell lung carcinoma ( SCLC ) remain incompletely defined.

Noun used with modifier

• non-small: The compound is at an early trials phase in breast cancer and Phase 3 in non-small cell lung cancer.
• cell: Small cell lung cancer usually responds well to chemotherapy.

Possessives

• smoker: The chronically ill, especially those with heart conditions, asthmatics, people with smoker's lungs and diabetics.

Preposition: of

• mouse: The Committee agreed that there was no evidence for a carcinogenic response in the lungs of mice inhaling trichloroethylene.