pulmonary

English

Etymology

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 plauciai, Polish płuco and Russian пла́вать (plávatʹ, “to swim”).

Adjective

pulmonary (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Pertaining to, having, or affecting the lungs.

Synonyms

• pneumonic
• pulmonic

Derived terms

• aorticopulmonary
• aortopulmonary
• bronchopulmonary
• cardiopulmonary
• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• extrapulmonary
• hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy
• interpulmonary
• intrapulmonary
• nasopulmonary
• nonpulmonary
• pleuropulmonary
• pulmonary alveolus
• pulmonary artery
• pulmonary cancer
• pulmonary circulation
• pulmonary docimasia
• pulmonary edema
• pulmonary embolism
• pulmonary emphysema
• pulmonary function test
• pulmonary oedema
• pulmonary pleura
• pulmonary toilet
• pulmonary trunk
• pulmonary tuberculosis
• pulmonary valve
• pulmonary vein
• pulmonology
• sinopulmonary
• subpulmonary
• tracheo-broncho-pulmonary
• transpulmonary

 

Related terms

• float

Translations

related to lungs

• Arabic: رِئَوِيّ m (riʔawiyy)
• Armenian: թոքային (hy) (tʻokʻayin)
• Asturian: pulmonar (ast)
• Belarusian: лёгачны (ljóhačny)
• Bulgarian: белодро́бен (belodróben), пулмона́лен (pulmonálen)
• Catalan: pulmonar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肺的 (zh) (fèi de)

• Czech: plicní (cs)
• Dutch: pulmonair (nl)
• Esperanto: pulma
• Finnish: keuhko- (fi)
• French: pulmonaire (fr)
• Galician: pulmonar (gl)
• German: Lungen- (de)
• Gujarati: ફુફ્ફુસીય (phuphphusīya), ફેફસિયું (phephsiyũ)
• Icelandic: lunga-, lungna-
• Indonesian: pulmoner
• Irish: scamhógach
• Italian: polmonare (it)
• Japanese: 肺の (ja) (はいの, hai no), 肺性 (はいせい, haisē)
• Korean: 폐의 (ko) (pye-ui)
• Macedonian: белодробен (belodroben)
• Malay: paru-paru (ms), peparu (ms), pulmonari
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lunge- (no)

• Occitan: pulmonar
• Persian: ریوی (fa) (riyavi)
• Polish: płucny (pl)
• Portuguese: pulmonar (pt)
• Romanian: pulmonar (ro)
• Russian: лёгочный (ru) (ljógočnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: плу̑ћнӣ

  Roman: plȗćnī

• Slovak: pľúcny (sk)
• Slovene: pljučen
• Spanish: pulmonar (es)
• Swedish: lung- (sv), pulmonal
• Tajik: шушӣ (šuši)
• Ukrainian: легене́вий (lehenévyj)