The lung is the essential respiration organ in air-breathing vertebrates. Its principal function is to transport oxygen from the atmosphere into the bloodstream, and to excrete carbon dioxide from the bloodstream into the atmosphere. This has accomplishes with the mosaic of specialized cells that form millions of tiny, exceptionally thin-walled air sacs where gas exchange takes place. Lungs also have nonrespiratory functions.
Medical terms related to the lung often begin with pulmo-, from the Latin pulmonarius ("of the lungs"), cognate with the Greek pleumon ("lung").
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Lung Cancer and Cigarette Smoking - Thoracic surgeon Fred Grannis MD provides smokers, lung cancer patients and their families with information on cigarettes, smoking, cessation, and lung cancer risk, diagnosis, and treatment. Webpage design by one of his patients.
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Montana: Deaths Up from Lung Cancer - Doctor reports it's just a relentless stream of incurable cancers resulting from a surge in smoking by women during the 1970s.
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NCI: What You Need To Know About Lung Cancer - Pamphlet format. Covers the disease, who's at risk, recognizing symptoms, diagnosing lung cancer, the stages of the disease, treatment, side effects.
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Quitting Really Does Lower Lung Cancer risk - CDC measures reduced lung cancer as a result of California's reduced smoking.
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