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English

Adjective

pulmonary (not comparable)

  • (anatomy) Pertaining to, having, or affecting the lungs.
    • ✤ [A]n actual progress of the blood in the pulmonary vessels is brought about [by potassium iodide], a phenomenon explaining the incontested superiority of iodine in all dyspnoeas, which have their origin in a disturbed state of the chemism of respiration, as well as in those of a nervous, arithmatic or cardiacal nature, the latter being connected with blood stagnations in the pulmonary vessels.1
    • ✤ Wiener-Kronish’s case showed plexogenic pulmonary angiopathy and positive immunofluorescent staining for IgG, C and C1q in the lung (1981). […]2
    • ✤ His diagnosis was noncardiogenic pulmonary edema associated with exercise or swimming: exercise-induced pulmonary edema (EIPE) or swimming-induced pulmonary edema (SIPE).3

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pulmōnārius (“of the lungs”), from pulmō (“lung”) + -ārius, from Proto-Indo-European ﹡pléu-mon-. Cognate with Greek πλεμόνι (plemóni), French poumon, Lithuanian plauciai, Polish płuco and Russian пла́вать (plávatʹ, “to swim”).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA: /ˈpʌl.məˌnɛ.ɹi/
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Footnotes

  1. 1892 January 15, “Material Medica and Pharmacy. Digitaline and Iodide of Potassium.”, in Cha[rle] s W. Moore, editor, The Pacific Record of Medicine and Surgery. A Monthly Résumé of Medical and Pharmaceutical Progress, volume VI, number 6, San Francisco, Calif.: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 175, column 1: ↩

  2. 1984 December, Ueda, N., Mimura, K., Maeda, H., Sugiyama, T., Kado, T., Kobayashi, K., Fukuzaki, H., “Mixed connective tissue disease with fatal pulmonary hypertension and a review of literature”, in Virchows Archiv A: Pathological Anatomy and Histology, volume 404, number 4, →DOI, pages 339–340: ↩

  3. 2015 July 2, Hirotomo Yamanashi et al., “Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Edema in a Triathlon”, in Case Reports in Medicine ‎, volume 2015, →DOI: ↩

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