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lung

noun as in body part

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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.

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On this page you'll find 3 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lung, such as: alveolus, bronchi, and pleura.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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