Word of the Day:
pulmonary
What It Means
Pertaining to, having, or affecting the lungs.
Pulmonary in Context
“Wiener-Kronish's case showed plexogenic pulmonary angiopathy and positive immunofluorescent staining for IgG, C₃ and C1q in the lung (1981). […]”
Did You Know?
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 plaučiai, Polish płuco and Russian пла́вать (plávatʹ, “to swim”).
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