pulmonary
adjectiveattested in dialogue
- United States//ˈpʌl.məˌnɛ.ɹi//
Pertaining to, having, or affecting the lungs.
adjective
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Pertaining to, having, or affecting the lungs.
[A]n actual progress of the blood in the pulmonary vessels is brought about [by potassium iodide], a phenomenon explaining the incontested superiority of iodine in all dyspnoeas, which have their origin in a disturbed state of the chemism of respiration, as well as in those of a nervous, arithmatic or cardiacal nature, the latter being connected with blood stagnations in the pulmonary vessels.
Wiener-Kronish's case showed plexogenic pulmonary angiopathy and positive immunofluorescent staining for IgG, C₃ and C1q in the lung (1981). […]
His diagnosis was noncardiogenic pulmonary edema associated with exercise or swimming: exercise-induced pulmonary edema (EIPE) or swimming-induced pulmonary edema (SIPE).
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pulmōnārius (“of the lungs”), from pulmō (“lung”) + -ārius, from Proto-Indo-European *pléu-mon-. Cognate with Greek πλεμόνι (plemóni), French poumon, Lithuanian plauciai, Polish płuco and Russian пла́вать (plávatʹ, “to swim”).
pulmonary · Pertaining to, having, or affecting the lungs.
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