lung injury

collocation in English

meaningsoflungandinjury

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lung
noun[C]
uk
/lʌŋ/us
/lʌŋ/
either of the two organs in the chest with which people and some ...
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injury
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɪn.dʒər.i/us
/ˈɪn.dʒər.i/
physical harm or damage to someone's body caused by an accident or ...
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(Definition oflungandinjuryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We developed a semiquantitative scoring system to describe the extent of thelunginjury.
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In addition to preventing irreversible tissue damage due to hypoxia, severelunginjurydue to aggressive mechanical ventilation should be avoided.
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Ongoing trials may help establish a role for exogenous surfactant as treatment for, or prophylaxis against, disturbed function inlunginjuryassociated with cardiopulmonary bypass.
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Appropriate innate immune responses might be a crucial link between infection and successful immunity in immunocompetent hosts, as well as between infection and immune-mediatedlunginjuryin compromised hosts.
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The subsequent reduction of inspired oxygen concentration and ventilatory support might have been useful in limiting the iatrogeniclunginjuryin this infant with an underlying chronic lung disease.
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Acutelunginjuryfollowing reperfusion after ischemia in the hind limbs of rats.
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In each case, despite impaired neutrophil function or reduced numbers in the lung, the physiological parameters oflunginjurywere the same as measured in mice with fully functional neutrophils.
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For example, awards have been reduced in cases of byssinosis in cotton workers andlunginjurycaused by exposure to toxic chemicals in marine workers.
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On the matter of smoking and damages, plenty of personal injury case law in other industries shows that courts consider smoking when fixing damages forlunginjury.
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Unlike pulmonary laceration, another type oflunginjury, pulmonary contusion does not involve a cut or tear of the lung tissue.
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The dyspnea risks following cangrelor treatment, suggest a common mechanism linking transfusion-related acutelunginjury, dyspnea, and reversible platelet inhibition.
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Another possible ventilator associatedlunginjuryis known as biotrauma.
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Severe and permanentlunginjuryor death could result from even a very short-term exposure to relatively low concentrations.
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A value below 300 is indicative of a moderately severelunginjury.
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Chronic airway disease is the mainlunginjuryamong firefighters who were exposed to toxins during 9/11.
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It can occur without a known cause or as the result of a lung disease or acutelunginjury.
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Primary influenza pneumonia occurs most commonly in adults and may progress rapidly to acutelunginjuryrequiring mechanical ventilation.
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This method is less popular due to an increased risk of iatrogeniclunginjury.
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Other effects include radiation-inducedlunginjury, cataracts, and infertility.
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This is because patient outcome in penetratinglunginjuryis related mainly to the severity of injury, rather than the type of treatment.
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