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PULMONARY CIRCULATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pulmonary circulation mean?
• PULMONARY CIRCULATION (noun)
The noun PULMONARY CIRCULATION has 1 sense:
1. circulation of blood between the heart and the lungs
Familiarity information: PULMONARY CIRCULATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PULMONARY CIRCULATION (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Circulation of blood between the heart and the lungs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("pulmonary circulation" is a kind of...):
circulation (movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels)
Context examples
It consists of a mass of lung parenchyma that does not communicate with the bronchial tree and receives its blood supply from the systemic circulation instead of the pulmonary circulation.
(Bronchopulmonary Sequestration, NCI Thesaurus)
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