Pulmonary means pertaining to the lungs. Find out more about pulmonary diseases and conditions and how these issues are diagnosed and treated.

After satisfactorily completing a fellowship in pulmonary medicine, the physician is permitted to take the board certification examination in pulmonary medicine. After passing this exam, the physician is then board certified as a pulmonologist.

The anterior thoracic wall, the airways and the pulmonary vessels anterior to the root of the lung have been digitally removed in order to visualise the different levels of the pulmonary circulation.

/ ˈpʊl·məˌner·i / relating to the lungs: a test of pulmonary function (Definition of pulmonary from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

The meaning of PULMONARY is of, relating to, affecting, or occurring in the lungs. How to use pulmonary in a sentence.

Pulmonary hypertension is a type of high blood pressure that affects the arteries in the lungs and the right side of the heart. In one form of pulmonary hypertension, called pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), blood vessels in the lungs are narrowed, blocked or destroyed.

Generally, a respiratory doctor and a pulmonary doctor are the same. But you might hear people use the term “respiratory doctor” when they mean a respiratory therapist, an allergist, or a thoracic surgeon.

Relating to the lungs, to the pulmonary artery, or to the aperture leading from the right ventricle into the pulmonary artery. Synonym (s): pneumonic (1) , pulmonic.

Pulmonary fibrosis is a lung disease that occurs when lung tissue becomes damaged and scarred. This thickened, stiff tissue makes it harder for the lungs to work properly.

/ ˈpʊl·məˌner·i / relating to the lungs: a test of pulmonary function (Definition of pulmonary from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)