Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. lunge, AS. lunge, pl. lungen,; akin to D. long, G. lunge, Icel. & Sw. lunga, Dan. lunge, all prob. from the root of E. light,. √125. See Light not heavy
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
A.S. lunge, pl. lungan, the lungs; cog. with light (adj.).
In literature:
The yawn is a stretch of the lungs as the stretch is a yawn of the muscles.
"How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions" by S. S. Curry
I had a serious lung trouble and was supposed to have consumption as I was always coughing.
"Old Rail Fence Corners" by Various
Who would have thought the old man to have such lungs!
"Nicanor - Teller of Tales" by C. Bryson Taylor
For the same reason the lung rudiment of one side only is shown.
"Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator" by Albert M. Reese
It is not the cigaret itself that does the harm, it is the smoke inhaled into the delicate lung tissue.
"Dollars and Sense" by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
While, however, the pike proper is common to both sides of the Atlantic, the 'lunge is confined to the basin of the St. Lawrence.
"Lines in Pleasant Places" by William Senior
Give the heart and lungs plenty of room to heave.
"Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners" by B.G. Jefferis
As examples of Aristotle's method of treatment, his descriptions of blood, the brain, the heart, and the lung may be considered.
"Fathers of Biology" by Charles McRae
I fill my lungs with ordinary air and breathe through a glass tube across the beam.
"Fragments of science, V. 1-2" by John Tyndall
Lungs, the hinder parts loaded with blood.
"An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses" by William Withering
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In poetry:
La steaua care a rãsãrit
E-o cale atît de lungã,
Cã mii de ani i-au trebuit
Luminii sã ne-ajungã.
"La steaua" by Mihai Eminescu
A lunging trout flashed in the sun,
To do some petty slaughter,
And set the spiders all a-run
On little stilts of water.
"An Idyl" by John Charles McNeill
Christ's angel, Death,
All radiant white,
With one cold breath
Will scare thee quite,
And give my lungs an air
As fresh as answered prayer.
"The Asthmatic To The Satan That Binds Him" by George MacDonald
He seiz’d his sword in both his hands,
Unto Langben Giant he flew;
He struck him so hard in the hairy breast,
That the point his lungs went through.
"Vidrik Verlandson (From The Old Danish) " by George Borrow
Pray, have you heard the news?
Sturdy in lungs and thews,
There's a fine baby!
Ring bells of crystal lip,
Wave boughs with blossoming tip;
Think what he may be!
"The Baby" by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
That old romance, ah me! that we
Were reading? till we heard the plunge
Of summer thunder sullenly,
And left to watch the lightning lunge,
And winds bend down each tree.--
"One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part V" by Madison Julius Cawein
In news:
Lung cancer, one of the most deadly but rarely talked about diseases, is the most common cause of cancer death in our state.
He died in Toronto on April 1 at the age of 57, only a few short weeks after it was learned that he had lung cancer.
Elaine de Kooning , a painter, teacher and writer on art, died of lung cancer yesterday at Southampton (L. She was 68 years old and lived in East Hampton.
Lung cancer are dropping, possibly a turning point in the smoking-fueled epidemic.
We're gonna start with a reverse lunge.
'I won a shot at living 16 months longer' says ALS patient after receiving diaphragm pacer for her lungs.
In one of the patients, Julia Bauer, the volume of air moved by her lungs showed a significant increase when the pacer was used briefly during the operation.
On her own, her lungs moved about 450-500 milliliters of air.
Arthur Schiff, who died of lung cancer last week in Coral Springs, Fla. At 66, was a businessman who ran his own marketing company for 23 years.
Severe lung diseases are among the leading causes of death worldwide.
Professionals hope sight of diseased lungs will deter middle-schoolers from smoking.
The cause was lung cancer, said his wife, Shaune.
Elizabeth DiMartino, American Lung Association of the Northeast Greater Hartford.
Over time they lose more and more muscle, until their lungs or heart become so weak they die.
Difficulty breathing because the lungs are wet, congested, or fluid-filled (congestive heart failure).
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In science:
Thue, ¨Uber die dichteste Zusammenstel lung von kongruenten Kreisen in einer Ebene.
A Simple Proof of Thue's Theorem on Circle Packing
Avalanching behavior as well as scale invariance have been experimentally observed in a variety of situations in nature, ranging from such different phenomena as earthquakes or magnetic systems (the Barkhausen effect), to biological problems such as evolution of species or lung inflation, just to give some examples.
Self-Organized Criticality in the Olami-Feder-Christensen model
In all cases, the low energy part is flat and quite similar to the case of relativistic bremsstrah lung.
Gamma-Ray Burst Synthetic Spectra from Collisionless Shock PIC Simulations
Figure 3: Medial (inside) surface of left (nearside) lung showing damage much larger than recovered bullet diameter (0.58”).
A method for testing handgun bullets in deer
CER05]. This hypothesis is supported by observations of neural effects in the brain from localized blast exposure focused on the lungs in animal experiments.
The Ballistic Pressure Wave Theory of Handgun Bullet Incapacitation
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