DeCS

Descriptor English:

Lung

Descriptor Spanish:

Pulmón

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	pulmón
Entry term(s)	pulmones
Scope note:	Cualquiera de los dos órganos que ocupan la cavidad del tórax y llevan a cabo la aireación de la sangre.

Descriptor Portuguese:

Pulmão

Descriptor French:

Poumon

Entry term(s):

Poumons

Tree number(s):

A04.411

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008168

Scope note:

Either of the pair of organs occupying the cavity of the thorax that effect the aeration of the blood.

Annotation:

/abnorm: CYSTIC ADENOMATOID MALFORMATION OF LUNG, CONGENITAL is available; /blood supply: consider also PULMONARY CIRCULATION; /surg: consider also PNEUMONECTOMY but PULMONARY SURGICAL PROCEDURES is also available; /transpl = LUNG TRANSPLANTATION or HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION: do not coord with TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS unless particularly discussed; inflammation = PNEUMONIA; collapse of lung = PULMONARY ATELECTASIS

Allowable Qualifiers:

AB malformations
AH anatomie et histologie
BS vascularisation
CH composition chimique
CY cytologie
DE effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
DG imagerie diagnostique
EM embryologie
EN enzymologie
GD croissance et développement
IM immunologie
IR innervation
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
PA anatomopathologie
PH physiologie
PP physiopathologie
PS parasitologie
RE effets des radiations
SU chirurgie
UL ultrastructure
VI virologie

Entry Combination:

injuries:Lung Injury
transplantation:Lung Transplantation