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Descriptor English: Lung
Descriptor Spanish: Pulmón
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): Lungs
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 abnormalities
AH anatomy & histology
BS blood supply
CH chemistry
CY cytology
DE drug effects
DG diagnostic imaging
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
IM immunology
IR innervation
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PH physiology
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
SU surgery
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Entry Combination: injuries:Lung Injury
transplantation:Lung Transplantation
Consider Also: consider also terms at PNEUMO- and PULMON-
Related: Air Sacs MeSH
Pneumonectomy MeSH
Pulmonary Circulation MeSH
Respiration MeSH
DeCS ID: 8345
Unique ID: D008168
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2008/07/09
Lung - Preferred
Concept UI M0012740
Scope note Either of the pair of organs occupying the cavity of the thorax that effect the aeration of the blood.
Preferred term Lung
Entry term(s) Lungs



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