Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the lungs; pulmonary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the lungs.
- noun A medicine for diseases of the lungs.
- noun One who is affected with a disease of the lungs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to, or affecting the lungs; pulmonary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or produced by the
lungs ;pulmonary . - adjective linguistics Produced by pushing
air from or into the lungs, as opposed tovelaric andglottalic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or affecting the lungs
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Examples
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An ultrasound scan revealed more intracardiac defects such as pulmonic stenosis, ventricular septal defects, overriding aorta and ventricular hypertrophy, a condition known as Tetralogy of Fallot.
News24 Top Stories 2010
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At the time of her evaluation for twin-twin transfusion with us, the recipient twin was found to have severe biventricular cardiac dysfunction, with moderate to severe leakage (regurgitation) across both mitral and tricuspid valves, severe pulmonic insufficiency with no forward flow across the pulmonary valve and reverse flow seen within the pulmonary artery.
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This condition is also called pulmonic stenosis or pulmonary valve stenosis.
Pulmonary Stenosis 2009
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This is calledpulmonary regurgitationor pulmonic insufficiency.
Pulmonary Stenosis 2009
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Also, the stenosis can occur above the valve, in the pulmonary artery itself; this is called supravalvar pulmonic stenosis.
Pulmonary Stenosis 2009
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The pulmonic, or pulmonary, valve sits on the way out of the heart between the right ventricle and the main pulmonary artery to prevent blood from leaking back in between beats.
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This condition is also known as pulmonic or pulmonary insufficiency.
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Subpulmonic and supravalvar pulmonic stenosis do not get better with balloon dilation, and will require surgery if the amount of obstruction is moderate or severe.
Pulmonary Stenosis 2009
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The heart valves are called tricuspid, pulmonic, mitral, and aortic.
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A blockage on the way of the blood to the lungs (pulmonic stenosis).
Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries (CCTGA) 2010
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