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lung

[luhng] / lʌŋ /
NOUN
body part
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Here’s the promise part: Patients treated with Insilico’s investigational drug rentosertib for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an age-related lung disease, showed a decline in their biological ages.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

In 2024, she was told it had spread to her lung.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Nearly 2.6 million new lung cancer cases were recorded in 2024, accounting for 13% of all cancers.

From Science Daily Sep. 7, 2026

These tiny particles can penetrate deep into the lungs, enter the bloodstream and have been linked to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, lung cancer and premature death.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

The orderly spoke of my father as a little man, but he was not, not until his black lung made its final assault.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

What might pollution from a data center do, she wondered, to his growing lungs?

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

More adults are also being offered another vaccine this winter to protect against RSV or Respiratory Syncytial Virus, which attacks the lungs.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

Mr. Boorman managed to injure himself gravely by whipping up dust storms on the Warner Bros. lot; fungal spores got into his lungs and he contracted a rare, sometimes debilitating disease called Valley Fever.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Tissue resident natural killer cells are found in locations including the skin, mucous membranes, lungs and liver.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

Dara calls, looking for me on the docks as I drop off the last load of fish, yelling it at the top of her lungs.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith



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