PULMONARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pulmonary mean? 

• PULMONARY (adjective)
  The adjective PULMONARY has 1 sense:

1. relating to or affecting the lungs

  Familiarity information: PULMONARY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PULMONARY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or affecting the lungs

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

pneumonic; pulmonary; pulmonic

Context example:

pulmonary disease

Pertainym:

lung (either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood)

 Context examples 

Certain allelic variants of the NOS3 gene are associated with susceptibility to atherosclerosis, pregnancy-induced hypertension, pulmonary hypertension or late-onset Alzheimer's disease.

(NOS3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

It includes carcinoid tumor, small cell carcinoma pulmonary type, and large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma.

(Ovarian Neuroendocrine Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Bosentan decreases both pulmonary and systemic vascular resistance and is particularly used in the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension.

(Bosentan, NCI Thesaurus)

A pleomorphic cell of the pulmonary alveolar epithelium that secretes surfactant and is distinguished by abundant cytoplasm containing numerous lipid-rich multilamellar bodies.

(Alveolar Cell Type II, NCI Thesaurus)

M. thermoresistibile is found in soil and is strongly associated with pulmonary and skin infections, but rarely isolated from clinical samples.

(Mycobacterium thermoresistibile, NCI Thesaurus)

A herpesvirus of sheep associated with pulmonary adenomatosis

(Ovine Jaagziekte Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

It includes small cell carcinoma, hypercalcemic type and small cell carcinoma, pulmonary type.

(Ovarian Small Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

As a consequence, blood from the aorta mixes with blood from the pulmonary artery.

(Patent Ductus Arteriosus, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by bilateral perihilar pulmonary shadowing.

(Bat Wing Pulmonary Opacities, NCI Thesaurus)

It is usually caused by a malignant neoplasm in the superior pulmonary sulcus.

(Pancoast Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)