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pulmonarily

pulmonarily adverb: with respect to, or via the respiratory system.

Adverb

pulmonarily (not comparable)

  1. With respect to, or via the respiratory system.
    • […] uses the following language — “A portion of healthy lung will float on water; a portion pulmonarily diseased, will sink in water.”1849, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, page 396
    • Table IX shows a number of determinations carried out on patients confined to bed but pulmonarily healthy.1942, Acta physiologica Scandinavica

Examples of pulmonarily in a sentence

  • […] and, simultaneously, a strong decrease in the peripheric pressure measured in the femoral artery as a sign of a pulmonarily conditioned overloading of the right heart.2012, M. Schaldach, D. Hohmann, Advances in Artificial Hip and Knee Joint Technology: Volume 2: Advances in Artificial Hip and Knee Joint...
  • The excretion of pulmonarily deposited soluble nickel salts is also fast, while the lung clearance of deposited insoluble or low-solubility nickel dust, for example, welding fumes, is much slower.2016, Jan Aaseth, Guido Crisponi, Ole Anderson, Chelation Therapy in the Treatment of Metal Intoxication, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 186:
  • This could be explained by a different metabolism of intestinally and pulmonarily absorbed cadmium.year unknown, A Survey of Human Exposure to Mecury, Cadmium and Lead in Greenland, Museum Tusculanum Press, page 21

Origin of pulmonarily

From pulmonary + -ly.

Questions about pulmonarily

What does pulmonarily mean?
Pulmonarily means with respect to, or via the respiratory system.
How do you use pulmonarily in a sentence?
[…] and, simultaneously, a strong decrease in the peripheric pressure measured in the femoral artery as a sign of a pulmonarily conditioned overloading of the right heart.
What part of speech is pulmonarily?
Pulmonarily is an adverb.

Words near pulmonarily in the dictionary

  1. pulmometry
  2. pulmonal
  3. pulmonaria
  4. pulmonarial
  5. pulmonarias
  6. pulmonarily
  7. pulmonarium
  8. pulmonary
  9. pulmonary alveoli
  10. pulmonary alveolus
  11. pulmonary arteries

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