lung
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lung/lʌŋ/
▶noun each of the pair of organs within the ribcage into which air is drawn in breathing, so that oxygen can pass into the blood and carbon dioxide be removed.
– derivatives
-lunged adjective,
lungful noun (pl. lungfuls),
lungless adjective.
-lunged adjective,
lungful noun (pl. lungfuls),
lungless adjective.
'lung' also found in these Oxford entries:
acinus
- air sac
- amphibian
- asbestosis
- atelectasis
- barotrauma
- black lung
- book lung
- byssinosis
- collapse
- cor pulmonale
- farmer's lung
- heart-lung machine
- iron lung
- lights
- lobar
- lobectomy
- lungwort
- pneumo-
- pneumonectomy
- pneumonia
- pneumothorax
- pulmonaria
- pulmonary
- pulmonate
- silicosis
