LUNG

lung

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Lung (plural Lungs)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lung is the 4578th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7753 individuals. Lung is most common among Hispanic/Latino (47.07%), White (32.36%), and Asian/Pacific Islander (14.51%) individuals.

Etymology

Noun

lung (plural lungs)

(anatomy) A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.

(plural) Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath.

That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc, to a place.

Synonyms

• (organ): (in the plural) bellows (informal or archaic), (in the plural) lights (of an animal, used as food)

Source: Wiktionary


Lung, n. Etym: [OE. lunge, AS. lunge, pl. lungen; akin to D. long, G. lunge, Icel. & Sw. lunga, Dan. lunge, all prob. from the root of E. light. See Light not heavy.] (Anat.)

Definition: An organ for aërial respiration; -- commonly in the plural. My lungs began to crow like chanticleer. Shak.

Note: In all air-breathing vertebrates the lungs are developed from the ventral wall of the esophagus as a pouch which divides into two sacs. In amphibians and many reptiles the lungs retain very nearly this primitive saclike character, but in the higher forms the connection with the esophagus becomes elongated into the windpipe and the inner walls of the sacs become more and more divided, until, in the mammals, the air spaces become minutely divided into tubes ending in small air cells, in the walls of which the blood circulates in a fine network of capillaries. In mammals the lungs are more or less divided into lobes, and each lung occupies a separate cavity in the thorax. See Respiration. Lung fever (Med.), pneumonia.

– Lung flower (Bot.), a species of gentian (G. Pneumonanthe).

– Lung lichen (Bot.), tree lungwort. See under Lungwort. Lung sac (Zoöl.), one of the breathing organs of spiders and snails.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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