Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sum of scientific knowledge concerning the lungs and air-passages, or the organs and processes of respiration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The science which treats of the lungs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The study of the
respiratory system andorgans .
Etymologies
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Examples
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An authority on smoking in France, Professor Jean Marsac, the head of the pneumology department at Paris's Cochin Hospital, calls cigarettes "the most deadly addiction epidemic of the twentieth century."
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An authority on smoking in France, Professor Jean Marsac, the head of the pneumology department at Paris's Cochin Hospital, calls cigarettes "the most deadly addiction epidemic of the twentieth century."
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The Quebec Heart and Lung Institute Research Centre has focused its development around this vision and aims to become the leading North American research centre in cardiology, pneumology, and obesity.
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Founded in 1918, the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute of Université Laval, located in Quebec City, Canada, includes cardiology, pneumology, and the surgical management of obesity departments.
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