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lung

/luhng/US // lʌŋ //UK // (lʌŋ) //

肺部,肺,肺脏,肺部疾病

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : either of the two saclike respiratory organs in the thorax of humans and the higher vertebrates.
    • : an analogous organ in certain invertebrates, as arachnids or terrestrial gastropods.

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Examples

  • The heated blankets were used to keep patients’ bodies warm while their lungs breathed in the cold, fresh air.

  • The EPA considers particles this size to be a threat to human health because, once inhaled, they can get deep into the lungs.

  • He died in 1984 of lung cancer at age 56 — a cruel loss for readers and American literature.

  • Even if you still have some virus replicating, but it’s much lower levels or can’t get deep in your lungs, you would also predict that you would have less long-term complications.

  • We have these drugs called kinase inhibitors that target specific subsets of lung cancer.

  • I am always sick because of the cold and I have suffered constant lung infections over the past several months.

  • Eight days later their bassist, Gerard Smith, passed away from lung cancer.

  • The bullet entered the left side of his chest, hit his heart and settled in his lung.

  • He decided to write his book four years ago, after he was hospitalized with a near-fatal lung condition.

  • While casual exercisers might not notice any difference in lung capacity, intense gym-goers might feel the effects of an e-cig.

  • Frequently they are found in alveolar arrangement, retaining the original outline of the alveoli of the lung (Fig. 4, b).

  • It, or a similar bacillus, is sometimes found in the sputum of gangrene of the lung.

  • Tuberculous pleurisy due to direct extension from the lung may give excess of polymorphonuclears owing to mixed infection.

  • Owen says that the thymus appears in vertebrates with the establishment of the lung as the main or exclusive respiratory organ.

  • He had been a bachelor with an inventive turn of mind and only one lung when he met the Widow Chisholme at the Springs.