Lung
noun
One of two organs in the chest that helps a person or animal to breathe.
Smoking can damage your lungs.
Often appears as...
- lung capacity
- lung disease
noun
Units of a computer in which data is stored.
His computer has a massive lung to store all the data he needs for his research.
Often appears as...
- computer lung
- data lung
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noun
One of two organs in the chest that helps a person or animal to breathe.
Smoking can damage your lungs.
Often appears as...
- lung capacity
- lung disease
noun
Units of a computer in which data is stored.
His computer has a massive lung to store all the data he needs for his research.
Often appears as...
- computer lung
- data lung
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Bodily Function
Lung relates to breathing and oxygen exchange vital for life.
Doctors check lung function to ensure healthy breathing.
Pro Tip 2/3Health Context
Lung is often used when discussing respiratory health and illnesses.
He is recovering from a severe lung infection.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Sometimes 'lung' describes things that function like a breathing organ.
Forests are often called the lungs of the Earth.
Pro Tip 1/3Bodily Function
Lung relates to breathing and oxygen exchange vital for life.
Doctors check lung function to ensure healthy breathing.
Pro Tip 2/3Health Context
Lung is often used when discussing respiratory health and illnesses.
He is recovering from a severe lung infection.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Sometimes 'lung' describes things that function like a breathing organ.
Forests are often called the lungs of the Earth.
Pro Tip 1/3Bodily Function
Lung relates to breathing and oxygen exchange vital for life.
Doctors check lung function to ensure healthy breathing.
Pro Tip 2/3Health Context
Lung is often used when discussing respiratory health and illnesses.
He is recovering from a severe lung infection.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Sometimes 'lung' describes things that function like a breathing organ.
Forests are often called the lungs of the Earth.
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Cell vs. virus: A battle...
like helping cells adhere to their neighbors or binding to nutrients the cell will need. Animal and plant cells have cell membranes. Only plant cells have a cell wall, which is made of rigid cellulose that gives the plant structure. The virus cell that was sneezed into your lungs is sneaky. Pretending to be a friend,
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The benefits of good...
and makes some organs, like your lungs, less efficient. Researchers have linked poor posture to scoliosis, tension headaches, and back pain, though it isn't the exclusive cause of any of them. Posture can even influence your emotional state and your sensitivity to pain.
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How to raise a Black son...
And I refuse to accept that we can't build this world into something new, some place where a child's name doesn't have to be written on a t-shirt, or a tombstone, where the value of someone's life isn't determined by anything other than the fact that they had lungs,
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Top 5 Animal Adaptations...
largest millipede species in the world they can grow up to around 12 inches long and live between five to seven years in the wild and they have around three to four hundred legs with four per body segment and they don't breathe through lungs like you and I instead
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How does cancer spread...
would eventually develop lung metastases. Today, we know that both theories contain valuable truths. Yet the full stories of metastasis is much more complicated than either of the two proposed theories. Factors like the cancer cell's properties,
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Why do we hiccup? - John...
An inhalation that could move water over gills followed by a rapid closure of the glottis preventing water from entering the lungs. That's supported by evidence which suggests that the neural patterning involved in generating a hiccup
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The real meaning of soul...
what's been missing spirit that sense of vitality isn't that what we need when we talk about soul we need to make it spirited again give it guts again give it lungs again because we want to live life with soul and I think pretty sure
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Oxygen’s surprisingly...
Together, the alveolar wall and capillaries make a two-cell thick membrane that brings blood and oxygen close enough for diffusion. These oxygen-enriched cells are then carried from the lungs through the cardiovascular network,
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Lungs 101 PIPE National...
by two of the body's most important and delicate organs. The lungs are two major components of the respiratory system. Soft, light, and elastic, these organs are prime for taking in and filling up with air.
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At what moment are you...
is what eventually results in death. This is the reason organisms can't be simply sparked back to life once they've already died. We can pump air into someone's lungs, but it won't do much good
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Cell vs. virus: A battle...
like helping cells adhere to their neighbors or binding to nutrients the cell will need. Animal and plant cells have cell membranes. Only plant cells have a cell wall, which is made of rigid cellulose that gives the plant structure. The virus cell that was sneezed into your lungs is sneaky. Pretending to be a friend,
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The benefits of good...
and makes some organs, like your lungs, less efficient. Researchers have linked poor posture to scoliosis, tension headaches, and back pain, though it isn't the exclusive cause of any of them. Posture can even influence your emotional state and your sensitivity to pain.
Video examples
How to raise a Black son...
And I refuse to accept that we can't build this world into something new, some place where a child's name doesn't have to be written on a t-shirt, or a tombstone, where the value of someone's life isn't determined by anything other than the fact that they had lungs,
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Top 5 Animal Adaptations...
largest millipede species in the world they can grow up to around 12 inches long and live between five to seven years in the wild and they have around three to four hundred legs with four per body segment and they don't breathe through lungs like you and I instead
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How does cancer spread...
would eventually develop lung metastases. Today, we know that both theories contain valuable truths. Yet the full stories of metastasis is much more complicated than either of the two proposed theories. Factors like the cancer cell's properties,
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Why do we hiccup? - John...
An inhalation that could move water over gills followed by a rapid closure of the glottis preventing water from entering the lungs. That's supported by evidence which suggests that the neural patterning involved in generating a hiccup
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The real meaning of soul...
what's been missing spirit that sense of vitality isn't that what we need when we talk about soul we need to make it spirited again give it guts again give it lungs again because we want to live life with soul and I think pretty sure
Video examples
Oxygen’s surprisingly...
Together, the alveolar wall and capillaries make a two-cell thick membrane that brings blood and oxygen close enough for diffusion. These oxygen-enriched cells are then carried from the lungs through the cardiovascular network,
Video examples
Lungs 101 PIPE National...
by two of the body's most important and delicate organs. The lungs are two major components of the respiratory system. Soft, light, and elastic, these organs are prime for taking in and filling up with air.
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At what moment are you...
is what eventually results in death. This is the reason organisms can't be simply sparked back to life once they've already died. We can pump air into someone's lungs, but it won't do much good
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Bez
English Dancer
I had COVID a week before they made the announcement. I couldn't breathe and I couldn't tell if it was my heart or my lungs. I got to the hospital and I said, 'I've been having this heart attack for three days' and they plugged me into the machines and everything and I had a swollen heart and a virus. I really seriously thought I was going to die.
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Jay DeMarcus
American Musician
When you first start out in the music business and hope that you have a couple hits, the ultimate payoff is to be standing in front of all those people who are singing it back to you at the top of their lungs. And you know by the way they're singing it back that it's affected their life in some way. That's the ultimate reward as an artist for me.
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Philip Rosenthal
American Producer
The world's pretty big. I have to see everything, do everything, eat everything. You'll never be as young as you are right now, so while your legs still work, while you still have the breath in your lungs, go. At the end of our lives, we only regret the things we didn't do.
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Jamaica Kincaid
Novelist
One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.
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Auli'i Cravalho
American Actress
I credit my singing to my mom because she didn't give me a binky when I was a baby. I cried and screamed for the first six months - my mom would say four years of my life - and I developed wonderful lungs.
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Lynne Doughtie
American Businesswoman
I'm passionate about making a difference in increasing the quality of life and survivorship for all affected by lung cancer, having lost my mother and grandmother to this terrible disease.
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Diana Nyad
American Author
I've never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it's set me so far back, I just don't' have the lung capacity to swim the way I can.
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Benjamin Whichcote
British Philosopher
The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.
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Craig Venter
American Scientist
If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.
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Loni Anderson
American Actress
Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.
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Bez
English Dancer
I had COVID a week before they made the announcement. I couldn't breathe and I couldn't tell if it was my heart or my lungs. I got to the hospital and I said, 'I've been having this heart attack for three days' and they plugged me into the machines and everything and I had a swollen heart and a virus. I really seriously thought I was going to die.
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Jay DeMarcus
American Musician
When you first start out in the music business and hope that you have a couple hits, the ultimate payoff is to be standing in front of all those people who are singing it back to you at the top of their lungs. And you know by the way they're singing it back that it's affected their life in some way. That's the ultimate reward as an artist for me.
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Philip Rosenthal
American Producer
The world's pretty big. I have to see everything, do everything, eat everything. You'll never be as young as you are right now, so while your legs still work, while you still have the breath in your lungs, go. At the end of our lives, we only regret the things we didn't do.
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Jamaica Kincaid
Novelist
One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.
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Auli'i Cravalho
American Actress
I credit my singing to my mom because she didn't give me a binky when I was a baby. I cried and screamed for the first six months - my mom would say four years of my life - and I developed wonderful lungs.
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Lynne Doughtie
American Businesswoman
I'm passionate about making a difference in increasing the quality of life and survivorship for all affected by lung cancer, having lost my mother and grandmother to this terrible disease.
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Diana Nyad
American Author
I've never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it's set me so far back, I just don't' have the lung capacity to swim the way I can.
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Benjamin Whichcote
British Philosopher
The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.
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Craig Venter
American Scientist
If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.
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Loni Anderson
American Actress
Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.
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