Definitions for lunglʌŋ

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

lunglʌŋ(n.)

  1. either of the two saclike respiratory organs in the thorax of humans and other air-breathing vertebrates.

    Category: Anatomy

  2. an analogous organ in certain invertebrates, as arachnids.

    Category: Zoology

Origin of lung:

bef. 1000; lungen, OE, c. MD longe, OHG lungun

lungedlʌŋd(adj.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. lung(noun)

    either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. lung(noun)ʌŋ

    the organs in the chest that you use to breathe

    lung cancer

Wiktionary

  1. lung(Noun)

    A biological organ that extracts oxygen from the air.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lung(noun)

    an organ for aerial respiration; -- commonly in the plural

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Lung

    Either of the pair of organs occupying the cavity of the thorax that effect the aeration of the blood.


Translations for lung

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

lung(noun)

one of the pair of organs of breathing, in man and other animals.

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