noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a heart/lung/skin etc condition
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I’m taking some medicine for a heart condition.
a skin/brain/lung etc disease
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The fumes have caused skin diseases among the villagers.
iron lung
lung/brain etc tissue
lung/breast/stomach etc cancer
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Smoking causes lung cancer.
weak heart/lungs etc
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My grandfather had a weak heart.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chronic
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Three infants in the random group developed chronic lung disease.
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This is extremely unusual for a child who has no chronic heart or lung disease.
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In the cases of chronic obstructive lung disease, if a young person gives up smoking, their lung function will improve.
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It's lead to chronic lung damage.
iron
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Some patients did emerge from iron lungs and resume their normal lives, fully recovered.
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In my imagination and nightmares I have done time in an iron lung .
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The iron lung encased Virginia in a vacuum.
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Nearly anyone who had been in an iron lung could tell tales of being stranded without breathing help.
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She went quickly; by afternoon, she was in the iron lung and she died the next morning.
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Confinement in the iron lung was in many cases temporary, with gradual exposure to outside conditions.
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At times, up to seventy iron lungs packed patient rooms, a solarium, and the hallway.
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But in the summer of 1954, though the hospital had available dozens of iron lungs , few were occupied.
right
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Through my right lung , which was why I was breathing oddly.
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Jack took pellets in the right lung , liver, and back, and his left arm was again badly fractured.
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In which case the tumour would be in my right lung , not the left one.
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The doctor said a blood vessel in the right lung had burst.
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A post-mortem revealed she had one and a half litres of blood in her right lung , which had almost completely collapsed.
■ NOUN
cancer
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The younger a person is when he or she starts smoking, the greater the risk of developing lung cancer .
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Ivester, 50, had been considered heir apparent to replace Goizueta, who died Saturday from complications related to lung cancer .
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It accused Roy of using his very public fight to beat lung cancer as a way of furthering his career.
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Besides fighting ovarian and head and neck cancers , cisplatin is most effective against bladder, testicular and some lung cancers.
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At least 90% of lung cancers are due to smoking.
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Any lung cancer that has spread is considered incurable.
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One of lung cancer's success stories, he runs a support group for lung cancer patients and their families.
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And it tends to spread quickly; only 13 percent of lung cancer patients survive five years.
damage
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We had been warned that the gas caused lung damage .
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Any creatures that breathe the surface air directly are subject to severe lung damage , lung edema, and death.
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It's lead to chronic lung damage .
disease
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Three infants in the random group developed chronic lung disease .
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For similar reasons the presence of severe lung disease and chronic kidney disease is a contraindication to disulfiram administration.
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Ask if the patient has a history of lung disease .
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Several days before, her father had gone to Boston to consult a specialist in lung disease .
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Environmental groups say the current air standards are inadequate to protect the health of asthma sufferers and others with lung diseases .
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He reminded her of his father, who had suffered from a lung disease .
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These include the more firmly established association between the drugs and a potentially fatal lung disease , primary pulmonary hypertension.
function
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Barker etal reported that low birth weight was associated with lower adult lung function but not with symptoms of wheeze.
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Her face is deformed, she has no effective heart or lung function , and she probably has brain damage.
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Reduced lung function has been associated with low birth weight regardless of whether the child had respiratory complications at birth.
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Our results confirm the relation between birth weight and lung function measurements reported in other studies.
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Valid assessment of lung function was not available for 418 children.
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We evaluated children's lung function and respiratory symptoms in relation to both length of gestation and the birth weight adjusted for gestational age.
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She had no relapse during 18 months' follow up, and results of lung function tests were normal.
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For children with normal length of gestation there was a positive association between birth weight and lung function .
infection
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He contracted a lung infection which did not respond to treatment.
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Loi promised to keep warm, and Joe started him on a course of antibiotics to try to clear the lung infection .
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Only in the last two weeks had the malaise set in, ever since his lung infection had taken hold.
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Meanwhile Davis continued to suffer with a string of health problems, including lung infections and a hip replacement.
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Garlic's reputation for curing colds and lung infections has also gained orthodox medical recognition.
tissue
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Normal lung tissue and that from patients with focal fibrosis expressed very little ET-1.
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So small volumes of lung tissue are exposed to high doses of alpha radiation.
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The stretching of the elastic explains the elasticity of lung tissue and that energy is required to stretch the tissue.
transplant
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No, she said, the damage had already been done and what was needed was a heart and lung transplant .
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Doctors believe that Jensen is only the second person with Down syndrome to receive a heart and lung transplant .
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A heart, liver or lung transplant can save the lives of those whose own organs have failed.
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Some can benefit from lung transplants , but patients often die waiting for organs.
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Kelly's only hope of survival was a heart and lung transplant .
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Pulmonary hypertension was diagnosed and the patient referred for consideration of a lung transplant .
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As his condition got worse, Richard's only chance of survival was a heart and lung transplant .
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For two years Kelly's been waiting for a heart and lung transplant , the only cure for her condition.
■ VERB
breathe
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Cover his mouth and nose with your mouth, and breathe gently into his lungs , making the chest rise.
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He savoured the weasel on his palate for seconds, and then breathed her into his lungs .
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Place your lips around the child's mouth and breathe into his lungs Place one of his hands under his leg.
cause
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We had been warned that the gas caused lung damage.
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Secondhand or environmental tobacco smoke causes 3, 000 lung cancers a year, Pirkle said.
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It causes heart disease, lung cancer, bronchitis and emphysema.
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Contamination could cause lung problems, similar to bronchitis, and eye and skin problems.
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Other factors can cause lung cancer but they are much less important than smoking.
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Animal studies have shown that chronic long-term exposure to ozone causes lung scarring similar to that associated with cigarette smoking.
develop
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A typical example is the tendency to blame yourself for instance, for smoking for many years before developing lung cancer.
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All of the mice in comparison groups that received an ineffective antibody developed lung tumors.
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If she carried on lying down all the time, she might develop congestion of the lungs , bronchitis, even pneumonia.
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Specialist medical evidence in the case showed that he had developed lung cancer as a result of active and passive smoking.
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There was a risk that he could develop mesothelioma or lung cancer.
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The first of our ancestors to develop lungs almost certainly lived in water.
die
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The human psyche is so pathetically insecure that we would rather die of lung cancer than confront an uncomfortable situation.
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She died of lung cancer, a result of a three-decade smoking addiction.
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What was the point of dying with your lungs gasping for breath?
fill
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In the course of filling his lungs he felt as if he were rising a few inches off the ground.
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I stopped, breathed deeply, and smiled as sweet air filled my lungs .
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Her deep cough resonates through mucus-\#filled lungs .
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Quickly, he stripped naked and filled his lungs and dove to the bottom where Kathy was.
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Take your deep, quiet, slow breath and feel your ribs expanding sideways as the air fills your lungs .
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Outside the embassy compounds, Saigon was still struggling to fill its lungs with air.
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The child stops, judders violently, fills his lungs with air, ready for more.
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He filled his lungs and dove.
puncture
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One of the knife blows had punctured a lung .
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A Hull inquest was told the glass punctured his lung .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Approximately 90% of deaths from lung cancer and bronchitis are caused by smoking.
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For similar reasons the presence of severe lung disease and chronic kidney disease is a contraindication to disulfiram administration.
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I used to think that just from working here, in this building, I would get black lung .
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If the lung is expanding, the radiation bouncing off it is pushed closer together, slightly raising its frequency.
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One of the knife blows had punctured a lung .
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Significant numbers of larvae reach the lungs and migrate to the bronchioles where they are killed by the animal's immune response.
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The emptiness inside him was physical, as if his heart and liver and lungs had been removed.