| lung volume measurements | Measurement of the amount of air that the lungs may contain at various points in the respiratory cycle. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| lung window | CT settings of window level and width appropriate to showing lung detail; soft tissues are white or nearly so. Mediastinal window, CT settings of window level and width appropriate to showing soft tissue structures; the lungs become black at these settings. Synonym: soft tissue window. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lung, hyperlucent | Hyperlucency of one lung with decreased size and vascularity of the lung. It is often associated with bronchiolitis obliterans and with adenovirus infection in childhood. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lung-grown | <medicine> Having lungs that adhere to the pleura. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lung: gallium imaging | <radiology> Scans at 48 hrs because 50% of normals show activity at 24 hrs, focal uptake, primary pulmonary malignancy, benign disorder: granuloma, abscess, pneumonia, silicosis, multifocal/diffuse uptake, infection, TB: active lesion, miliary TB, rapidly progressive TB pneumonia, PCP: unimpressive symptoms and CXR, CMV, inflammation: sarcoid, interstitial lung disease (pneumoconiosis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, lymphangitic carcinomatosis), radiation pneumonitis, drugs: bleomycin, amiodarone, contrast lymphangiography (in 50%) see: gallium: indications, uptake with normal chest film (12 Dec 1998) |
| lunge | <zoology> Same as Namaycush. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lunged | Having lungs, or breathing organs similar to lungs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lungfish | <zoology> Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; so called because they have both lungs and gills. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lungie | <zoology> A guillemot. Alternative forms: longie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lungoor | <zoology> A long-tailed monkey (Semnopithecus schislaceus), from the mountainous districts of India. Origin: Hind. Langur. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lungs | The lungs are a pair of breathing organs located with the chest which remove carbon dioxide from and bring oxygen to the blood. There is a right and left lung. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lungworm | <zoology> Any one of several species of parasitic nematoid worms which infest the lungs and air passages of cattle, sheep, and other animals, often proving fatal. The lungworm of cattle (Strongylus micrurus) and that of sheep (S. Filaria) are the best known. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lungworms | Nematodes that inhabit the air passages of animals, chiefly in the family Metastrongylidae (or Protostrongylidae). See: Aelurostrongylus, Crenosoma vulpis, Dictyocaulus, Metastrongylus, Muellerius capillaris, Protostrongylus rufescens. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lungwort | <botany> An herb of the genus Pulmonaria (P. Officinalis), of Europe; so called because the spotted appearance of the leaves resembles that of a diseased lung. Any plant of the genus Mertensia (especially. M. Virginica and M. Sibirica) plants nearly related to Pulmonaria. The American lungwort is Mertensia Virginica, Virginia cowslip. Cow's lungwort mullein. Sea lungwort, Mertensia maritima, found on the seacoast of Northern Europe and America. Tree lungwort, a lichen (Sticta pulmonacea) growing on trees and rocks. The thallus is lacunose, and in appearance somewhat resembles the lungs, for diseases of which it was once thought a remedy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| butterfly lung | Haemorrhagic markings appearing on an animal's lung after inoculation with Leptospira interrogans (L. Icterohaemorrhagiae). (05 Mar 2000) |
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| cancer, lung | Cancer of the major organ of respiration the lung. Lung cancer kills more men and women than any other form of cancer. Since the majority of lung cancer is diagnosed at a relatively late stage, only 10% of all lung cancer patients are ultimately cured. Eight out of 10 lung cancers are due to tobacco smoke. Lung cancers are classified as either small cell or non-small cell cancers. Persistent cough and bloody sputum can be symptoms of lung cancer. Lung cancer can be diagnosed based on examination of sputum, or tissue examination with biopsy using bronchoscopy, needle through the chest wall, or surgical excision. (12 Dec 1998) |
| carcinoma, lewis lung | A carcinoma discovered by dr. Margaret r. Lewis of the wistar institute in 1951. This tumour originated spontaneously as a carcinoma of the lung of a c57bl mouse. The tumour does not appear to be grossly haemorrhagic and the majority of the tumour tissue is a semifirm homogeneous mass. It is also called 3ll and llc and is used as a transplantable malignancy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| carcinoma, non-small-cell lung | A heterogeneous aggregate of at least three distinct histological types of lung cancer, including squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, and large cell carcinoma. They are dealt with collectively because of the shared properties of poor response to conventional chemotherapy and the potential for cure with surgical resection in a fraction of patients. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cardiac impression of lung | The depression on the medial surface of each lung produced by the presence of the heart. It is more pronounced on the left lung. Synonym: impressio cardiaca pulmonis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiac lung | Disturbance in pulmonary anatomy and physiology secondary to valvular disease of the heart or to other disturbances of circulation incident to cardiac disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cardiac notch of left lung | The notch in the anterior border of the superior lobe of the left lung which accommodates the pericardium. Synonym: incisura cardiaca pulmonis sinistri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| machine, heart-lung | A machine that does the work both of the heart (pump blood) and the lungs (oxygenate the blood). Used, for example, in open heart surgery. Blood returning to the heart is diverted through the machine before returning it to the arterial circulation. Also called a pump-oxygenator. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vanishing lung | <syndrome> Progressive decrease of radiographic opacity of the lung caused by accelerated development of emphysema or rapid cystic destruction of the lung from infection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vanishing lung syndrome | <syndrome> Progressive decrease of radiographic opacity of the lung caused by accelerated development of emphysema or rapid cystic destruction of the lung from infection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| malt-worker's lung | <chest medicine> Extrinsic allergic alveolitis caused by inhalation of spores of Aspergillus clavatus and Aspergillus fumigatus from contaminated barley during the manufacture of beer. (22 Sept 2002) |
| ventilation/perfusion lung imaging | <radiology> See: ventilation agents, perfusion agents, Biello-Siegel criteria (12 Dec 1998) |
| paraquat lung | Paraquat, a weed killer, selectively accumulates in the lungs and is highly toxic. Once X-ray changes from paraquat are evident in the lungs, death is virtually certain. (12 Dec 1998) |
| parasitic eosinophilic lung disease | <radiology> All are metazoans (mostly nematodes), Ascaris, Strongyloides, Ancyclostoma, Schistosoma, tropical pulmonary eosinophilia, pulmonary larva migrans (12 Dec 1998) |
| mason's lung | Silicosis occurring in stone masons. (05 Mar 2000) |
Synonyms : Disease, Interstitial Lung, Diseases, Interstitial Lung, Interstitial Lung Disease, Interstitial Pneumonia, Interstitial Pneumonias, Interstitial Pneumonitides, Interstitial Pneumonitis, Lung Disease, Interstitial, Pneumonias, Interstitial
Synonyms : Disease, Obstructive Lung, Diseases, Obstructive Lung, Lung Disease, Obstructive, Obstructive Lung Disease, Obstructive Lung Diseases
Synonyms : Disease, Parasitic Lung, Diseases, Parasitic Lung, Lung Disease, Parasitic, Parasitic Lung Disease
Synonyms : Cancer of the Lung, Neoplasms, Lung, Neoplasms, Pulmonary, Cancer, Lung, Cancer, Pulmonary, Cancers, Lung, Cancers, Pulmonary, Lung Cancers, Lung Neoplasm, Neoplasm, Lung, Neoplasm, Pulmonary, Pulmonary Cancers, Pulmonary Neoplasm
Synonyms : Graftings, Lung, Lung Grafting, Lung Graftings, Lung Transplantations, Transplantations, Lung
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cough and breathlessness
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| lung volume reduction surgery |
Surgical technique used in persons who have emphysema to remove the non-functional diseased portion of the lung in attempt to restore more normal and efficient breathing mechanics.
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| lungworm |
a type of primitive creature that lives inside other animals for most of its existence (Lungworms are also a type of roundworm.)
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| lung bud |
Lung buds are endodermally lined and mesodermally covered. The epiploic folds around the lung buds have a coelomic slit, the pulmoenteric recess.
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| lung cancer |
An uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in lung tissue. Primary lung cancer originates in the lungs, while metastatic lung cancer spreads to the lungs from another organ. Classification is based on the type of cell the cancer originates from: adenocarcinoma, alveolar cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, large cell, and small cell carcinomas.
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