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lung (luŋ)

noun

  1. either of the two spongelike respiratory organs in the thorax of vertebrates, that oxygenate the blood and remove carbon dioxide from it
  2. any analogous organ in invertebrates

Etymology: ME lunge < OE lungen, akin to Ger lunge < IE base *legwh-, light in weight and movement: the lungs were so named because of their lightness: see lights

lung Idioms

at the top of one's lungs

in one's loudest voice

lung Usage Examples

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.
lung Quotes

Randolph Churchill went into hospital†to have a lung removed. It was announced that the trouble was not 'malignant'. Seeing Ed Stanley in White's, on my way to Rome,Iremarked that it was atypicaltriumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

—Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the†disease.

—[great soul]

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