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pulmonary

[ puhl-muh-ner-ee, pool- ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the lungs.
  2. of the nature of a lung; lunglike.
  3. affecting the lungs.
  4. having lungs or lunglike organs.
  5. pertaining to or affected with disease of the lungs.


pulmonary

/ ˈpʊl-; -mənrɪ; ˈpʌlmənərɪ /

adjective

  1. of, or relating to or affecting the lungs
  2. having lungs or lunglike organs


pulmonary

/ plmə-nĕr′ē /

  1. Relating to or involving the lungs.


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Other Words From

  • inter·pulmo·nary adjective
  • non·pulmo·nary adjective
  • post·pulmo·nary adjective
  • sub·pulmo·nary adjective
  • trans·pulmo·nary adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pulmonary1

1650–60; < Latin pulmōnārius of the lungs, equivalent to pulmōn- (stem of pulmō lung; akin to Greek pleúmōn, later pneúmōn lung; pneuma ) + -ārius -ary

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pulmonary1

C18: from Latin pulmōnārius, from pulmō a lung; related to Greek pleumōn a lung

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Example Sentences

She had worked with the therapy at USC, where she headed up the pulmonary critical care fellowship.

She’s had multiple lab draws, EKGs, an e-patch to monitor her heart rhythm and pulmonary rehab.

“It just means her immune system doesn’t like covid, no different than every other human being’s immune system,” said Galiatsatos, a pulmonary and critical care doctor who works with covid patients.

Covid-19 can sometimes cause pneumonia, according to Panagis Galiatsatos, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Johns Hopkins.

He said that soaring caseloads are straining the quality of care at the University of Utah, where he works in one of the hospital’s intensive care units and is an assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care.

The painting is of a human heart set inside a wind-up music box that has a metal rod poking out of the pulmonary artery.

Mark Pletcher, et al. “Association Between Marijuana Exposure and Pulmonary Function Over 20 Years.”

McPherson died of a pulmonary embolism, though a coroner originally cited prolonged dehydration and bedrest as the cause.

One witness who failed to appear suffered a pulmonary embolism and died before he could.

Hemorrhage, infection, and pulmonary embolism are all more common following a surgical birth.

Its continued presence in pulmonary tuberculosis is, however, a grave prognostic sign, even when the physical signs are slight.

A pulmonary embolism shouldn't kill him, but the effects were disproportionate to the cause and would last a while.

I had entertained fears from the start that I would be “thrown out” on account of a supposed pulmonary difficulty.

It is much resorted to by invalids suffering from pulmonary disorders, which, if not cured, are at least relieved by the pure air.

He knew, also, that the pulmonary veins conducted arterial blood, and that the pericardium was a shut sac.

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