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biolung

noun

Etymology

From bio- + lung.

  1. derived from *h₁lengʷʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *lunganjō✻
  3. inherited from lungen
  4. inherited from lunge
  5. prefixed as biolung — “bio + lung”

Definitions

  1. An artificial lung that uses tiny hollow fibers to mimic the structure of a human lung.

    • After four to eight days of incubation, this biolung was grafted on to a rat.

The neighborhood

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