pulmonic

American  

[puhl-mon-ik, pool-] / pʌlˈmɒn ɪk, pʊl- /

adjective

1. pulmonary.

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pulmonic British  

/ pʌlˈmɒnɪk, pʊl- /

adjective

1. of or relating to the lungs; pulmonary

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noun

1. rare

   1. a person with lung disease

   2. a drug or remedy for lung disease

Etymology

Origin of pulmonic

From the French word pulmonique, dating back to 1655–65. See pulmonary, -ic

Example Sentences

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pulmonic

The Beagle was not so sickly; but, during the last cruise, upwards of forty cases, principally pulmonic, had occurred, and several were not yet recovered.

From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy

For the difficulty of distinguishing a flow of blood from the stomach, from a pulmonic expectoration of that fluid, is, to non-medical men, even in common cases, not inconsiderable. 

From The Black Death The Dancing Mania by B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington

In whooping cough, and other pulmonic affections, it proves beneficial in the form of syrup.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

The pulmonic affections are generally contracted at an early period by the youth of both sexes, and are occasioned by the great and sudden variations of temperature already noticed.

From Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America by William Charles Wentworth

From all this it is also evident that conjunction of spirit and body in man is by means of the correspondence of the cardiac and pulmonic movement in both.

From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager