pulmonary
adjUS /ˈpʌl.məˌnɛ.ɹi/
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”).
- [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.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:
- Wiener-Kronish's case showed plexogenic pulmonary angiopathy and positive immunofluorescent staining for IgG, C₃ and C1q in the lung (1981). […]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:
1 more example
- His diagnosis was noncardiogenic pulmonary edema associated with exercise or swimming: exercise-induced pulmonary edema (EIPE) or swimming-induced pulmonary edema (SIPE).2015 July 2, Hirotomo Yamanashi et al., “Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Edema in a Triathlon”, in Case Reports in Medicine, volume 2015, →DOI:
- Derived terms
47 terms
aorticopulmonary, aortopulmonary, atriopulmonary, bipulmonary, bronchopulmonary, cardiopulmonary, cavopulmonary, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, costopulmonary, extrapulmonary, gastropulmonary, hepatopulmonary, hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy, interpulmonary, intrapulmonary, juxtapulmonary, lusupultide, nasopulmonary, nonpulmonary, pleuropulmonary, pulmonarily, pulmonary alveolus, pulmonary artery, pulmonary cancer, pulmonary circulation, pulmonary docimasia, pulmonary edema, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary function test, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary pleura, pulmonary-renal syndrome, pulmonary toilet, pulmonary trunk, pulmonary tuberculosis, pulmonary valve, pulmonary vein, pulmonology, renopulmonary, sinapultide, sinopulmonary, subpulmonary, thoracopulmonary, tracheo-broncho-pulmonary, transpulmonary- Related terms
- float