Synonyms for lung
lʌŋlung

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1. lungnoun

   A biological organ that extracts oxygen from the air.

   Synonyms:
   lights, bellows

Princeton's WordNet

1. lungnoun

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

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1. • Respiratory Organ

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1. List of paraphrases for "lung":

   pulmonary, lungs, dragon, dragons, ryong, respiratory, loong, loon, takashi, chest

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1. Norman Edelman:

   We've known for a while that among people with really bad emphysema, if we can take out the big air sacs and reduce the total lung volume, it will make people feel better, less short of breath, this is a way to do that without actually opening up the chest.

2. Otis Brawley:

   It's not whether you have pancreatic cancer, or colon cancer or lung cancer that's going to be important to the treating clinician, what's going to be important to the treating clinician is what's wrong with your tumor at a molecular level.

3. Anne Schuchat:

   We do not know yet what exactly is making people sick, for example, whether particular solvents or adulterants are leading to lung injury, or whether cases stem from a single supplier or multiple ones.

4. Andrew Shuman:

   Which of our patients with cancer should get it? How can we prioritize between American lives? Should our limited vials go to an older woman who was just diagnosed with lung cancer, a young man who’s already been successfully taking it for testicular cancer, or a baby with neuroblastoma and aggressive cancer for which this drug is recommended but others might substitute? as a doctor who’s devoted my life to fighting cancer, it’s hard to express how horrible that is.

5. Robert Brook:

   While most people can readily observe and believe that air pollution may cause lung diseases, it is in fact cardiovascular diseases that are the largest adverse health effect of fine particulate matter exposure.