Word Finder - lung

definition

A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.

definition

(plural) Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath.

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He hasn't the lungs to play long rallies like he use to.

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That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place.

There is much malaria in the wooded districts of the east and on the higher campos, where the daily extremes of temperature are great, lung and bronchial diseases are common.

The knife had punctured his right lung, deflating it.

Adaptation for speed is further exhibited in the moulding of the shape of the body so as to present the minimum amount of resistance to the air, as well as in increase in heart and lung capacity to meet the extra expenditure of energy.

Thus it is laid down in large quantity in cirrhosis of the liver, kidney or lung, and reacts upon these organs by contracting and inducing atrophy.

In phthisis also, although there may be some expectoration to bring up, yet a good deal of the irritation is in the lung substance, and the efforts of coughing are far greater and more continuous than are required for the removal of expectoration, and they simply exhaust the patient.

Do you suffer from liver, kidney or lung disease?

So when you dive, the air would enter the lung under pressure of depth.

Owing to a miracle which he is alleged to have worked on a child suffering from a throat affection, who was brought to him on his way to execution, St Blaise's aid has always been held potent in throat and lung diseases.

In the same way, the reflex act of coughing is useful in removing either foreign bodies or excessive secretion from the air passages; but when the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract is irritated and inflamed, it produces a feeling of tickling and a desire to cough sometimes very violently; yet the coughing simply tends to exhaust the patient, because there is really little or nothing to bring up. The same is the case in inflammation of the lung substance itself.

The presence of toxins in the blood not only affects the brain, causing delirium, but also other organs, the heart and lung, and may cause fatal syncope or respiratory failure.

Adaptations for aerial respiration are found in some of the landcrabs, where the lining membrane of the gill-chamber is beset with vascular papillae and acts as a lung.

The disease from which he suffered, lung complaint, had, however, established a firm hold on him.

The oviducts are long, usually more or less convoluted tubes which open posteriorly into the cloaca, while their anterior aperture is situated far forward, sometimes close to the root of the lung; their walls secrete a gelatinous substance which invests the ova as they descend.

For example, in patients with severe lung disease a pyrexia or high carbohydrate diet may result in respiratory acidosis.

Air enters the rear air sacs, passes to the lung and then leaves via the front air sacs.

Smoking is a leading cause of lung cancer, but that is not the only form of this disease that has been linked to this habit.

They may also come with a gurgling lump in the left side of the neck and rarely with a lung abscess.

An average 15% aerosol charging by single charges is assumed to lead to a 30% increase in lung deposition of inhaled aerosols.

Lewis has a history of health problems, including the chronic lung ailment, pulmonary fibrosis.

In the middle ages the plant was used for lung and liver ailments.

They asked my permission to do an amniocentesis to check for fetal lung maturity.

The thorax must be percussed, and lung apices and the axillae auscultated.

In 14 lung cancer cases and all but one of the mesotheliomas there was moderate to severe asbestosis.

Supplementation was found to significantly attenuate the O 3 -induced decrements in lung function in both studies.

The clinic occurs every 2-3 months and assesses patients with increased blood pressure in the lung arteries.

She is a Respiratory Pediatrician with a special interest in asthma particularly pre-school wheeze, non-CF bronchiectasis and congenital lung abnormalities.

It's not just cancer tho, there's lung disease, which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

Among other things, they cause bronchitis, asthma, lung cancer and heart disease.

Know the link between smoking and respiratory diseases Eg bronchitis, lung cancer.

Sections of the lung away from the tumor site showed patchy bronchopneumonia with evidence of edema.

She noted signs, not only of significant long-standing lung disease, but also of acute bronchopneumonia superimposed on that disease.

We pioneered compensation for cotton workers ' lung disease byssinosis in the 1980s.

The comparison with white collar workers was performed to control for other occupational lung carcinogens.

Warde P, Payne D. Does thoracic irradiation improve survival and local control in limited-stage small-cell carcinoma of the lung?

Surfactant was isolated from duck, chicken, and pig lung lavage fluid by differential centrifugation.

At the last meeting, David Bernstein told a skeptical audience that " pure chrysotile is rapidly cleared from the lung.

As a result some highly dangerous forms of lung cancer actually appear to be higher in smokers of low tar cigarettes.

The model was validated by applying to cohorts without lung cancer excess and to cohorts of smokers and non smokers.

Viruses from the lung tissue in Toronto patients readily infected monkey kidney cells, and no known human coronavirus infects that cell line.

This is a heart and lung exercise and will increase your heart rate and breathing. 1 set 15 reps of bicep curls.

The development and optimal management of acute and chronic lung disease, including cystic fibrosis, are also being studied.

No significant correlations were observed between changes of lung function tests and serum cytokine concentration.

Up to 6,000 deaths a year from chronic obstructive lung diseases may be related to work.

Exposure to blue or brown asbestos dust can cause mesothelioma, a tumor of the pleura, which is the lining of the lung.

Pulmonary problems include both obstructive and restrictive lung disease, with symptoms of exertional dyspnea, sleep apnea, and reduced pulmonary endurance.

Preparation of hospital emergency plans to cope with large influx of patients with burns, lung damage and trauma.

The following day an interstitial emphysema caused by a lung weakness was diagnosed.

Many people suffer from the debilitating lung disease emphysema.

These are lung fibroblasts derived from a 14 week male fetus of a 27 year old woman aborted in 1966 for 'psychiatric reasons ' .

In humans, interstitial lung fibrosis is a serious disease.