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INTRAPULMONARY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does intrapulmonary mean?
• INTRAPULMONARY (adjective)
The adjective INTRAPULMONARY has 1 sense:
1. being or occurring within a lung
Familiarity information: INTRAPULMONARY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being or occurring within a lung
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
lung (either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood)
Context examples
Lung cancer with metastasis to ipsilateral peribronchial and/or ipsilateral hilar lymph nodes, including intrapulmonary nodes involved by direct extension of the primary tumor.
(Lung Cancer pN1 TNM Finding, NCI Thesaurus)
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