Definition of lung

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Lung (n.) An organ for aerial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.

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Lunge :: Lunge (v. i.) To make a lunge.
Mesobronchium :: Mesobronchium (n.) The main bronchus of each lung.
Siphonarid :: Siphonarid (n.) Any one of numerous species of limpet-shaped pulmonate gastropods of the genus Siphonaria. They cling to rocks between high and low water marks and have both lunglike organs and gills.
Stall :: Stall (v. t.) To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart..
Breast :: Breast (n.) The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast..
Adhere :: Adhere (v. i.) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura..
Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke..
Pleuropneumonia :: Pleuropneumonia (n.) Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle..
Emerge :: Emerge (v. i.) To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity..
Dipneumona :: Dipneumona (n. pl.) A group of spiders having only two lunglike organs.
Vomica :: Vomica (n.) An abscess cavity in the lungs.
Clung :: Clung (v. i.) Wasted away; shrunken.
Trachea :: Trachea (n.) The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
Flung :: Flung (imp. & p. p.) of Flin.
Hematosis :: Hematosis (n.) The arterialization of the blood in the lungs; the formation of blood in general; haematogenesis.
Plunge :: Plunge (v. t.) To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
Lungfish :: Lungfish (n.) Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills.
Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out..
Interaction :: Interaction (n.) Mutual or reciprocal action or influence; as, the interaction of the heart and lungs on each other..
Blunging :: Blunging (n.) The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger.
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