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9 unusual facts about lung


Aqua-lung

The classic Jethro Tull song "Aqualung" and the album of the same name were named after the apparatus.

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry suggests the use of an aqua-lung to assist him with the second task of the Triwizard Tournament.

Grace Anne Dorney Koppel

Since January 2006, Dorney has also been active as a national spokeswoman and patient advocate for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health in the hopes of raising awareness of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) which affects some 24 million Americans, 12 million of whom are undiagnosed and untreated.

The Retirement Living website featured a link to the "Learn More Breathe Better" campaign website and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute website.

Jason Hu

Jason Hu won re-election with relative ease in the December three-in-one elections with a nearly twenty percent margin of victory over Democratic Progressive Party challenger Lin Chia-lung.

Ji Chen

In 2006 he was awarded the GE Healthcare Research Award from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and by 2009 got a grant from both the National Institute of Health and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Leung Siu-lung

However, in 2004, he made a return to the screen as The Beast in Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle (which, incidentally, was his first villainous role).

Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium

ROC is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health, United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Defence Research and Development Canada, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and American Heart Association.

Tung Hsiang-lung

In early October 2013 during a legislative session, Tung said the VAC will stop issuing subsidies to ROC veterans that are found to hold PRC citizenship, citing the amendment to article 27 of the Act Governing the Relations Between Peoples of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area that was passed in March 2004.


Ancient Greek medicine

He is given credit for the first purple description of clubbing of the fingers, an important diagnostic sign in chronic suppurative lung disease, lung cancer and cyanotic heart disease.

Beautiful World Tour 2007

However Howard Donald suffered a crack rib and a collapsed lung during this section of the show in Vienna, resulting in him missing a number of European dates and performing a restricted role in others.

Bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae

It is used in Chinese herbology, for example in the Baihe Gujin Wan, to "nourish yin of the lung, resolve phlegm and relieve cough".

Canadian Lung Association

A close connection between The Lung Association and the Governor General of Canada goes back to 1900 when the 8th Governor General of Canada - the Earl of Minto - helped found the Canadian Tuberculosis Association (as The Lung Association was originally known) in a meeting at Rideau Hall.

Cirencester House

The tonne of clippings produced by its annual trimming are sold to pharmaceutical companies who use extracts as a key ingredient of Docetaxel, a chemotherapy drug used to treat breast, ovarian and lung cancer.

Coalworker's pneumoconiosis

In the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, the U.S. Congress set up standards to reduce dust and created the Black Lung Disability Trust.

Collapsed lung

Pneumothorax, accumulation of air in the chest leading to collapse of the lung

Corinna Tsopei

Tsopei was married to Hollywood Super Agent Freddie Fields, brother of band leader Shep Fields, from 1981 until his death from lung cancer in December 2007.

Cow lung

In Malaysian cuisine, cow or goat lung, called paru, coated in turmeric and fried is often served as a side dish to rice, especially in the ever popular nasi lemak.

Crackle

Crackles, an abnormal lung sound heard in a subject with respiratory disease

Deborah Heart and Lung Center

Located in Browns Mills, New Jersey, Deborah Heart and Lung Center is the only hospital in the region that focuses exclusively on cardiac, vascular, and lung disease using state-of-the-art technology and care.

Delightful Forest

The legendary fighter Wu Sung (Ti Lung) is sent to prison in Meng province after murdering his sister-in-law and her lover.

Di Nü Hua

In 1975, the play was adapted into a film titled Princess Chang Ping, directed by John Woo and starring Lung Kim-sang and Mui Suet-si.

Diacetyl

In 2012, Wayne Watson, a regular microwavable popcorn consumer for years, was awarded $7.27 million in damages from a federal jury in Denver, which decided his lung disease was caused by the chemicals in microwave popcorn and that the popcorn's manufacturer, Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation, and the grocery store that sold it should have warned him of its dangers.

EML4-ALK positive lung cancer

EML4-ALK positive lung cancer is a medical term that refers to a primary malignant lung tumor whose cells contain a characteristic abnormal configuration of DNA wherein the echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 (EML4) gene is fused to the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene.

Gunai language

Krauatungalung (Kraut = east, lung = belonging to) located east wards to the Snowy River.

Hang Lung

Hang Lung Group: a Hong Kong listed company in property development, car park management, property management and dry-cleaning businesses, and the parent company of Hang Lung Properties.

Hang Lung Plaza

Olympia 66, Dalian (大連恒隆廣場, literally Dalian Hang Lung Plaza)

Forum 66, City Centre, Shenyang (市府恒隆廣場, literally City Centre Hang Lung Plaza)

Heart–lung transplant

Building on his research at Stanford, Dr. Bruce Reitz performed the first successful heart–lung transplant on Mary Gohlke in 1981 at Stanford Hospital.

Dr. Norman Shumway laid the groundwork for heart lung transplantation with his experiments into heart transplantation at Stanford in the mid 1960s.

Irving Selikoff

Irving J. Selikoff (1915 in New York City – May 20, 1992 in Ridgewood, New Jersey) was a medical researcher who in the 1960s established a link between the inhalation of asbestos particles and lung-related ailments.

Lahaul and Spiti district

Vestiges of the Lung Pe Chhoi religion can be seen in the behaviour of the Lamas, who are believed to possess certain supernatural powers.

Levi LaVallee

On Friday December 17, 2010 Lavallee suffered a broken pelvis, and punctured lung during a practice run for Red Bull New Year No Limits, and was unable to make his record setting attempt during the planned special New Years telecast.

Lo Wai

Lo Wai (老圍), a walled village in Lung Yeuk Tau, Fanling, Hong Kong

Lung cancer screening

Clinical practice guidelines previously issued by the American College of Chest Physicians in 2007 recommended against routine screening for lung cancer because of a lack of evidence that such screening was effective.

Lung cancer vaccine

CimaVax-EGF, the first therapeutic cancer vaccine developed to target lung cancer.

Michel Coiffard

While downing his 34th victim (a Fokker D.VII) he was critically wounded by two bullets; one hit him in the thigh and the other pierced his chest back to front passing through a lung.

Mustafa al'Absi

Dr. al'Absi's research programs have been funded by grants from the National Institute of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Cancer Institute, the National Health, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the American Heart Association.

My Iron Lung

The song's caustic, self-reflexive lyrics used the iron lung as a metaphor for the way "Creep" had both sustained the band's life and constrained them ("this is our new song / just like the last one / a total waste of time / my iron lung").

Peverell

Peverell borders Central Park, often known as "the green lung" of Plymouth which is a very popular recreational area for Plymothians.

Positive pressure

Amphibians use this process to respire, whereby they use positive pressure to inflate their lungs.

Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Princess Mathilde of Bavaria died of lung disease in 1906 in Davos, leaving her husband with two small children.

Regulation of tobacco by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

In 1964, Surgeon General Luther Terry issued a report on smoking and health saying that tobacco causes lung cancer and is a main contributor to bronchitis.

Rentarō Taki

In the same year, Taki went to the Leipzig Conservatory, Germany to study music further, but fell seriously ill with tuberculosis of the lungs and came back to Japan.

Sabine Bergmann-Pohl

From 1980 to 1985, she was medical director of the polyclinic department for lung diseases, and tuberculosis in Berlin-Friedrichshain.

Sihung Lung

Sihung Lung (Chinese: 郎雄, Pinyin: Láng Xíong, Wade–Giles: Lang Hsiung; c. 1930 – May 2, 2002) was an actor in the cinema of Taiwan who appeared in over 100 films and was best known for playing paternal roles in films including Eat Drink Man Woman and The Wedding Banquet.

Skrappys

As a music venue, Skrappy's saw the rise of many Tucson native bands such as The Bled, Versus the Mirror, Blues, The American Black Lung, Line of Fire, The Mean Reds, Beyond the Citadel of Coup de Grace and many others.

Sophie Cohen

During a Passover Seder visit, the family's negative views about her change as she informs them that she has been diagnosed with lung cancer.

Takayama Chogyū

As sea air was thought to be helpful for lung ailments, Chogyū moved from Tokyo to the seaside resort towns of Atami, Shimizu, Oiso, and finally to Kamakura in an effort to cure his disease.

Terry Mercer

Mercer has been an administrator and fundraiser for numerous charitable organizations such as the Kidney Foundation of Canada, St. John Ambulance, the Nova Scotia Lung Association, the YMCA and the Canadian Diabetes Association and is currently Past Chair of the Association of Fundraising Professionals' Foundation for Philanthropy in Canada.

The Buddhism Palm Strikes Back

Lung Kim-sang meets Kung-suen Ling-fung, a maiden from the Omei Sect, and she falls in love with him and follows him on his adventures.

The Invincible Armour

The Emperor's Minister of State Cheng, an authoritarian ruler, arranges for Hu Lung, one of his old students to distract General Chow while he assassinates the leader of the Ming rebels.

Understanding Lung Sounds

Understanding Lung Sounds 3rd edition (2002) by Steven Lehrer is a book and audio CD that guides the student through the skills of lung auscultation.

Vincent Siew

Siew had 2 cancerous lung tumors removed on his left lung on 20 May 2009 at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital.

Wong Yuk-long

Wong Jan-lung (born 1950), better known by his pseudonym Wong Yuk-long or Tony Wong, is a Hong Kong manhua artist, publisher and actor, who wrote and created Little Rascals (later re-titled Oriental Heroes) and Weapons of the Gods.

WU LYF

WU LYF formed in the summer of 2008 in Rusholme, Manchester and comprises "Jeau" (Joe Manning), "Lung" (Tom McClung), "Elle Jaie" (Ellery Roberts) and "Evnse" (Evans Kati).


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