aqualung
Aqua-Lung
scuba | a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water, scuba is an acronym for selfontained underwater breathing apparatus |
| heart-lung machine | a pump to maintain circulation during heart surgery, diverts blood from the heart and oxygenates it and then pumps it through the body |
| iron lung | respirator that produces alternations in air pressure in a chamber surrounding a patient's chest to force air into and out of the lungs thus providing artificial respiration |
| lung-power | the ability to speak loudly |
| plague spot | a spot on the skin characteristic of the plague |
| lung | either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates, serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood |
| lobe of the lung | any of the three lobes of the right lung or the two lobes of the left lung |
| book lung | organ in many arachnids containing many thin folds of membrane resembling the leaves of a book |
| plague a | an annoyance, those children are a damn plague |
| plague | any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) |
tin pest
tin disease
tin plague | the transformation of ordinary white tin into powdery grey tin at very cold temperatures |
infestation
plague | a swarm of insects that attack plants, a plague of grasshoppers |
adult respiratory distress syndrome
ARDS
wet lung
white lung | acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales, inflammation of the lungs which become stiff and fibrous and cannot exchange oxygen, occurs among persons exposed to irritants such as corrosive chemical vapors or ammonia or chlorine etc. |
drug addiction
white plague | an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug) |
pulmonary anthrax
inhalation anthrax
anthrax pneumonia
ragpicker's disease
ragsorter's disease
woolsorter's pneumonia
woolsorter's disease | a form of anthrax infection acquired by inhalation of dust containing Bacillus anthracis, initial symptoms (chill and cough and dyspnea and rapid pulse) are followed by extreme cardiovascular collapse |
plague pestilence
pest | any epidemic disease with a high death rate |
plague
pestilence pest pestis | a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal |
bubonic plague
pestis bubonica
glandular plague | the most common form of the plague in humans, characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin, does not spread from person to person |
ambulant plague
ambulatory plague
pestis ambulans | a mild form of bubonic plague |
Black Death
Black Plague | the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe |
pneumonic plague
pulmonic plague
plague pneumonia | a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person, characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever |
| septicemic plague | an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream, does not spread from person to person |
pulmonary tuberculosis
consumption
phthisis
wasting disease
white plague | involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body |
| pneumonia | respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants |
atypical pneumonia
primary atypical pneumonia
mycoplasmal pneumonia | an acute respiratory disease marked by high fever and coughing, caused by mycoplasma, primarily affecting children and young adults |
bronchopneumonia
bronchial pneumonia | pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles |
| double pneumonia | lobar pneumonia involving both lungs |
| interstitial pneumonia | chronic lung disease affecting the interstitial tissue of the lungs |
| lobar pneumonia | pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung, commonly due to streptococcal infection |
| pneumococcal pneumonia | pneumonia caused by bacteria of the genus pneumococcus |
pneumocytosis
pneumocystis pneumonia
pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
interstitial plasma cell pneumonia | pneumonia occurring in infants or in persons with impaired immune systems (as AIDS victims) |
anthracosis
black lung
black lung disease
coal miner's lung | lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust |
| viral pneumonia | pneumonia caused by a virus |
| lung cancer | carcinoma of the lungs, one of the commonest forms of cancer |
farmer's lung
thresher's lung | alveolitis caused by an allergic reaction to fungal spores in the dust that is inhaled from moldy hay |
| aspergillosis brooder pneumonia | severe respiratory disease of birds that takes the form of an acute rapidly fatal pneumonia in young chickens and turkeys |
| aspiration pneumonia | inflammation of the lungs caused by inhaling or choking on vomitus, may occur during unconsciousness (anesthesia or drunkenness or seizure or cardiac arrest) |
rinderpest
cattle plague | an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal), characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes |
shipping fever
shipping pneumonia | a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep, involves high fever and pneumonia, contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market) |
b harass
hassle
harry
chivy
chivvy
chevy
chevvy
beset
plague
molest
provoke bbba | annoy continually or chronically, He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked, This man harasses his female co-workers |
blight
plague | cause to suffer a blight, Too much rain may blight the garden with mold |
| lung-like | performing functions similar to those performed by lungs |