pulmonary circulation

noun

Physiology.

the circulation of blood from the heart to the lungs for oxygenation and back to the heart.

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The conditions as regards the pulmonary circulation then corresponded with those mentioned as causes for oedema from venous obstruction.

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The pulmonary circulation is a system within a system; and one action of the heart is the origin of both.

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This is nature's safeguard against the accumulation of fluid in the dependent parts of the lungs at the terminal capillaries of the pulmonary circulation.

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Columbus, who was teaching anatomy at the Papal University of the Sapienza in Rome, was even more complete and explicit in his description of the pulmonary circulation than had been Servetus.