pulmonary

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pulmōnārius (“of the lungs”), from pulmō (“lung”) + -ārius, from Proto-Indo-European *pléu-mon-. Cognate with Greek πλεμόνι (plemóni), French poumon, Lithuanian plauciai, Polish płuco and Russian пла́вать (plávatʹ, “to swim”).

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Adjective

pulmonary (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Pertaining to, having, or affecting the lungs.

Synonyms

• pneumonic
• pulmonic

Derived terms

• aorticopulmonary
• aortopulmonary
• bronchopulmonary
• cardiopulmonary
• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• extrapulmonary
• hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy
• interpulmonary
• intrapulmonary
• nasopulmonary
• nonpulmonary
• pleuropulmonary
• pulmonary alveolus
• pulmonary artery
• pulmonary cancer
• pulmonary circulation
• pulmonary docimasia
• pulmonary edema
• pulmonary embolism
• pulmonary emphysema
• pulmonary fibrosis
• pulmonary function test
• pulmonary oedema
• pulmonary pleura
• pulmonary-renal syndrome
• pulmonary toilet
• pulmonary trunk
• pulmonary tuberculosis
• pulmonary valve
• pulmonary vein
• pulmonology
• sinopulmonary
• subpulmonary
• tracheo-broncho-pulmonary
• transpulmonary

Related terms

• float

Translations

related to lungs

Arabic: رِئَوِيّ m (riʔawiyy) Armenian: թոքային (hy) (tʻokʻayin) Asturian: pulmonar (ast) Belarusian: лёгачны (ljóhačny) Bulgarian: белодро́бен (belodróben), пулмона́лен (pulmonálen) Catalan: pulmonar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 肺的 (zh) (fèi de) Czech: plicní (cs) Dutch: pulmonair (nl) Esperanto: pulma Finnish: keuhko- (fi) French: pulmonaire (fr) Galician: pulmonar (gl) German: Lungen- (de) Gujarati: ફુફ્ફુસીય (phuphphusīya), ફેફસિયું (phephsiyũ) Icelandic: lunga-, lungna- Indonesian: pulmoner Irish: scamhógach Italian: polmonare (it) Japanese: 肺の (ja) (はいの, hai no), 肺性 (はいせい, haisē) Korean: 폐의 (ko) (pye-ui) Macedonian: белодробен (belodroben) Malay: paru-paru (ms), peparu (ms), pulmonari Norwegian: Bokmål: lunge- (no) Occitan: pulmonar Persian: ریوی (fa) (riyavi) Polish: płucny (pl) Portuguese: pulmonar (pt) Romanian: pulmonar (ro) Russian: лёгочный (ru) (ljógočnyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: плу̑ћнӣ Roman: plȗćnī Slovak: pľúcny (sk) Slovene: pljučen Spanish: pulmonar (es) Swedish: lung- (sv), pulmonal Tajik: шушӣ (šuši) Ukrainian: легене́вий (lehenévyj)