Definitions
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- Being outside of, or independent of, the lungs.
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- adjective anatomy Beyond or outside the
lungs .
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Examples
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You picked up extrapulmonary tuberculosis in that hellhole.
THE PROMISED WAR Thomas Greanias 2010
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Other serious extrapulmonary signs can be present.
Chapter 7 1993
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The trachea and extrapulmonary bronchi are composed of imperfect rings of hyaline cartilage, fibrous tissue, muscular fibers, mucous membrane, and glands.
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Another potential confounder is the type of TB (pulmonary or extrapulmonary), the extent of disease and the sample type used for analysis.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jayne S. Sutherland et al. 2010
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Patients with tuberculosis have frequently presented with disseminated or extrapulmonary disease.
unknown title 2009
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Patients with tuberculosis have frequently presented with disseminated or extrapulmonary disease.
unknown title 2009
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Compared with crystalloid, colloid therapy slows progression of extrapulmonary tissue injury in septic sheep.
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Both pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB patients were included in the study.
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In atypical pneumonia extrapulmonary symptoms, most often give some clue to the causative organism.
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Therefore it is critical to assess vaccination strategies that lead to robust cell mediated immunity in pulmonary as well as extrapulmonary tissues.
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