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lung

noun as in body part

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Jones' father Simon died in August 2024, less than seven months after being diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.

From BBC

It’s gorgeous, as is the shot of 20,000 people in the audience singing along at the top of their lungs to the Indigo Girls’ anthemic “Closer to Fine.”

From Salon

Their cancers are more often tied to lifestyle - tobacco and alcohol drive lung and oral cancers, both aggressive and less responsive to treatment.

From BBC

It can cause a dramatic drop in blood pressure and damage the lungs, kidneys, liver and other organs.

From BBC

For Cupid, the most recent animal wounded, veterinarians found that the arrow punctured her right lung and nearly struck her left.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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