LUNG
\lˈʌŋ], \lˈʌŋ], \l_ˈʌ_ŋ]\
Definitions of LUNG
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Either of the pair of organs occupying the cavity of the thorax that effect the aeration of the blood.
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By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The respiratory organ; the organ which serves for the aeration of the blood in an air breathing animal. In man the lungs, two in number, are situated one in each lateral half of the thorax. They are divided into lobes and lobules made up of assemblages of air vesicles, to which the bronchi and bronchioles convey atmospheric air, and from which the same channels carry off carbon dioxid and other waste products of respiration.
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).