Lung Definition

lŭng
lungs
noun
Either of the two spongelike respiratory organs in the thorax of air-breathing vertebrates, that oxygenate the blood and remove carbon dioxide from it.
Webster's New World
Any analogous organ in invertebrates.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
idiom
at the top of (one's) lungs
  • As loudly as one's voice will allow.
American Heritage
at the top of one's lungs
  • in one's loudest voice
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Lung

Noun

Singular:
lung
Plural:
lungs

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Origin of Lung

  • From Middle English, from Old English lungen, from Proto-Germanic *lungw- (“the light organ"), from Proto-Indo-European *lengÊ·Ê°- (“not heavy, agile, nimble"); cf. *h₁lengÊ·Ê°-, whence ultimately also light. Cognate with West Frisian long, Dutch long, German Lunge, Danish lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga, and also Russian лёгкое (lÑ‘gkoe) (lung), Ancient Greek ἐλαφρός (ἐlafrós) and perhaps Albanian lungë (“blister, bulge"). Compare Latin levis and Old English lÄ“oht (Modern English light). See also lights ("lungs").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English lunge from Old English lungen lungs legwh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Lung Sentence Examples

  • There is much malaria in the wooded districts of the east and on the higher campos, where the daily extremes of temperature are great, lung and bronchial diseases are common.

  • The knife had punctured his right lung, deflating it.

  • Adaptation for speed is further exhibited in the moulding of the shape of the body so as to present the minimum amount of resistance to the air, as well as in increase in heart and lung capacity to meet the extra expenditure of energy.

  • Thus it is laid down in large quantity in cirrhosis of the liver, kidney or lung, and reacts upon these organs by contracting and inducing atrophy.

  • In phthisis also, although there may be some expectoration to bring up, yet a good deal of the irritation is in the lung substance, and the efforts of coughing are far greater and more continuous than are required for the removal of expectoration, and they simply exhaust the patient.

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Words Starting With

LLULUN

Words Ending With

GNGUNG

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Words Starting With L and Ending With G

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With L4 Letter Words Ending With G