honeycomb lung

[ hŭn′ē-kōm′ ]

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The radiological and gross appearance of the lungs resulting from diffuse fibrosis and cystic dilation of bronchioles.

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I am always sick because of the cold and I have suffered constant lung infections over the past several months.
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Eight days later their bassist, Gerard Smith, passed away from lung cancer.
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The bullet entered the left side of his chest, hit his heart and settled in his lung.
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He decided to write his book four years ago, after he was hospitalized with a near-fatal lung condition.
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While casual exercisers might not notice any difference in lung capacity, intense gym-goers might feel the effects of an e-cig.
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Frequently they are found in alveolar arrangement, retaining the original outline of the alveoli of the lung (Fig. 4, b).
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It, or a similar bacillus, is sometimes found in the sputum of gangrene of the lung.
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Tuberculous pleurisy due to direct extension from the lung may give excess of polymorphonuclears owing to mixed infection.
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Owen says that the thymus appears in vertebrates with the establishment of the lung as the main or exclusive respiratory organ.
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He had been a bachelor with an inventive turn of mind and only one lung when he met the Widow Chisholme at the Springs.
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