pulmonarily

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adverb

With respect to, or via the respiratory system.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adverbpulmonarily (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemedicineWith respect to, or via the respiratory system.

    This could be explained by a different metabolism of intestinally and pulmonarily absorbed cadmium.

    year unknown, A Survey of Human Exposure to Mecury, Cadmium and Lead in Greenland, Museum Tusculanum Press, page 21
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    […] uses the following language — “A portion of healthy lung will float on water; a portion pulmonarily diseased, will sink in water.”

    1849, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, page 396

    Table IX shows a number of determinations carried out on patients confined to bed but pulmonarily healthy.

    1942, Acta physiologica Scandinavica

    The rat absorbs pulmonarily about 60%. Liquid ethyl benzene is absorbed dermally at a rate up to 22-33 mg/cm² per hour. The distribution pattern is not known.

    1999, Hans Marquardt, Siegfried G. Schäfer, Roger O. McClellan, Frank Welsch, Toxicology, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 612

    […] and, simultaneously, a strong decrease in the peripheric pressure measured in the femoral artery as a sign of a pulmonarily conditioned overloading of the right heart.

    2012, M. Schaldach, D. Hohmann, Advances in Artificial Hip and Knee Joint Technology: Volume 2: Advances in Artificial Hip and Knee Joint Technology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 37

    The excretion of pulmonarily deposited soluble nickel salts is also fast, while the lung clearance of deposited insoluble or low-solubility nickel dust, for example, welding fumes, is much slower.

    2016, Jan Aaseth, Guido Crisponi, Ole Anderson, Chelation Therapy in the Treatment of Metal Intoxication, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 186

Origin

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