| EUL | expected upper limit |
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| F&U | flanks and upper quadrants |
| GULHEMP | general physique, upper extremity, lower extremity, hearing, eyesight, mentality, and personality |
| KUB | kidneys and upper bladder; [x-ray examination of the] kidneys, ureter, and bladder |
| LU | left upper [limb]; loudness unit; Lupron; lytic unit |
| total lung capacity | The volume of air contained in the lungs at the end of a maximal inspiration. It is the equivalent to each of the following sums: vital capacity plus residual volume; inspiratory capacity plus functional residual capacity; tidal volume plus inspiratory reserve volume plus functional residual capacity; tidal volume plus inspiratory reserve volume plus expiratory reserve volume plus residual volume. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| endstage lung | Severe diffuse interstitial fibrosis and honeycombing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transplant lung syndrome | <syndrome> A syndrome associated with fever and diffuse bilateral pulmonary infiltration mainly at the base or at the hilum of the lung; can accompany rejection of an organ (kidney) transplant or follow a reduction in dosage of an immunosuppressive drug. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transverse fissure of the lung | The deep fissure that separates the upper and middle lobes of the right lung. Synonym: fissura horizontalis pulmonis dextri, horizontal fissure of right lung, minor fissure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| trench lung | A psychogenic hyperventilation marked by paroxysmal attacks of rapid breathing, without any signs of organic disease, observed in stressful situations such as battle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| eosinophilic lung disease | <radiology> Idiopathic: Loeffler pneumonia, chronic eosinophilic pneumonia, hypereosinophilic syndrome, specific: drugs (e.g., nitrofurantoin), parasites, fungi (ABPA, bronchocentric granulomatosis), vasculitis / granulomatosis: Wegener's granulomatosis, polyarteritis nodosa, sarcoidal angiitis (12 Dec 1998) |
| extravascular lung water | <physiology> Water present within the lungs; its volume is roughly equal to, or a little less than, the intracellular blood volume of the lungs. Accumulations of extravascular lung water result in pulmonary oedema. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Farmer's lung | <chest medicine> Type III hypersensitivity response to Micropolyspora faeni, a thermophilic bacterium found in mouldy hay. (18 Nov 1997) |
| unilateral hyperlucent lung | Chronic bronchiolitis obliterans predominating on one side. See: unilateral lobar emphysema. (05 Mar 2000) |
| uraemic lung | Perihilar oedema of the lung associated with renal failure and hypertension; the peripheral parts of the lung remain clear. Synonym: uraemic pneumonia, uraemic pneumonitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fibroid lung | Chronic interstitial pneumonia in a lung. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fissures of lung | See: transverse fissure of the lung, oblique fissure of lung. (05 Mar 2000) |
| folded-lung syndrome | <syndrome> Collapse of part of the lung caught between shrinking fibrous pleura scars, sometimes resulting from pleural asbestosis. Synonym: round atelectasis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| left lung segments | <radiology> Upper lobe, apical posterior, anterior, superior lingular, inferior lingular, lower lobe, superior, posterior basal, lateral basal, anterior medial basal (12 Dec 1998) |
| lingula of left lung | An inferomedial projection from the anterior aspect of the upper lobe of the left lung which bounds the cardiac notch inferiorly. Synonym: lingula pulmonis sinistri. (05 Mar 2000) |