Meanings
- not comparableanatomyPertaining to, having, or affecting the lungs.
Wiener-Kronish's case showed plexogenic pulmonary angiopathy and positive immunofluorescent staining for IgG, C₃ and C1q in the lung (1981). […]
1984 December, Ueda, N., Mimura, K., Maeda, H., Sugiyama, T., Kado, T., Kobayashi, K., Fukuzaki, H., “Mixed connective tissue disease with fatal pulmonary hypertension and a review of literature”, in Virchows Archiv A: Pathological Anatomy and Histology, volume 404, number 4, →DOI, pages 339–3402 more examples
[A]n actual progress of the blood in the pulmonary vessels is brought about [by potassium iodide], a phenomenon explaining the incontested superiority of iodine in all dyspnoeas, which have their origin in a disturbed state of the chemism of respiration, as well as in those of a nervous, arithmatic or cardiacal nature, the latter being connected with blood stagnations in the pulmonary vessels.
1892 January 15, “Material Medica and Pharmacy. Digitaline and Iodide of Potassium.”, in Cha[rle]s W. Moore, editor, The Pacific Record of Medicine and Surgery. A Monthly Résumé of Medical and Pharmaceutical Progress, volume VI, number 6, San Francisco, Calif.: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 175, column 1His diagnosis was noncardiogenic pulmonary edema associated with exercise or swimming: exercise-induced pulmonary edema (EIPE) or swimming-induced pulmonary edema (SIPE).
2015 July 2, Hirotomo Yamanashi et al., “Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Edema in a Triathlon”, in Case Reports in Medicine, volume 2015, →DOI
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*pléu-mon-
- Latinpulmōnārius“of the lungs”
- Englishpulmonary
Borrowed from Latin pulmōnārius (“of the lungs”), from pulmō (“lung”) + -ārius, from Proto-Indo-European *pléu-mon-. Cognate with Greek πλεμόνι (plemóni), French poumon, Lithuanian plaučiai, Polish płuco and Russian пла́вать (plávatʹ, “to swim”).
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Arabic رِئَوِيّ
- رِئَوِيّ (riʔawiyy)related to lungs
Bulgarian белодро́бен, пулмона́лен
- белодро́бен (belodróben)related to lungs
- пулмона́лен (pulmonálen)related to lungs
Catalan pulmonar
- pulmonarrelated to lungs
Chinese Mandarin 肺的
- 肺的 (fèi de)related to lungs
Czech plicní
- plicnírelated to lungs
Danish lunge-, pulmonal
- lunge-related to lungs
- pulmonalrelated to lungs
Dutch long-, pulmonair
- long-related to lungs
- pulmonairrelated to lungs
- pulmonaalrelated to lungs
Esperanto pulma
- pulmarelated to lungs
Finnish keuhko-, pulmonaali-
- keuhko-related to lungs
- pulmonaali-related to lungs
- pulmonaalinenrelated to lungs
French pulmonaire
- pulmonairerelated to lungs
German Lungen-
- Lungen-related to lungs
Icelandic lunga-, lungna-
- lunga-related to lungs
- lungna-related to lungs
Indonesian pulmoner
- pulmonerrelated to lungs
Irish scamhógach
- scamhógachrelated to lungs
Italian polmonare
- polmonarerelated to lungs
Japanese 肺の, 肺性
- 肺の (hai no)related to lungs
- 肺性 (haisē)related to lungs
Korean 폐의
- 폐의 (pye-ui)related to lungs
Malay paru-paru, peparu
- paru-parurelated to lungs
- peparurelated to lungs
- pulmonarirelated to lungs
Norwegian Bokmål lunge-
- lunge-related to lungs
Persian ریوی
- ریوی (riyavi)related to lungs
Polish płucny
- płucnyrelated to lungs
Portuguese pulmonar
- pulmonarrelated to lungs
Romanian pulmonar
- pulmonarrelated to lungs
Russian лёгочный
- лёгочный (ljógočnyj)related to lungs
Slovak pľúcny
- pľúcnyrelated to lungs
Spanish pulmonar
- pulmonarrelated to lungs
Swedish lung-, pulmonal
- lung-related to lungs
- pulmonalrelated to lungs
Ukrainian легене́вий
- легене́вий (lehenévyj)related to lungs
Cite this entry
pulmonary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pulmonary
“pulmonary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pulmonary. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pulmonary,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pulmonary.
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