Pulmonary Overview

Encyclopedia: Pulmonary

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The lung is the essential respiration organ in air-breathing animals, including most tetrapods, a few fish and a few snails. The most primitive animals with a lung are the lungfish and the pulmonate snails . In mammals and the more complex life forms, the two lungs are located in the chest on either side of the heart. Their principal function is to transport oxygen from the atmosphere into the bloodstream,...


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What is the difference between asbestosis and pulmonary fibrosis?
My husband has been advised by his consultant to claim industrial disease allowance for his...

asbestosis is caused by exposure to asbestos asbestos fibres are thin and microscopic and easily pass through the filters in the nose and bronchi into the lungs it sticks to...

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What are the details of having a hole in the pulmonary artery?
My doctor called me today and said I have a hole in my pulmonary artery....

Get a second opinion as the first person said. Never trust just one doctors opinion, they often make mistakes. I was sent home to die twice by this one...

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