Injury or Poisoning
lung injury
lung in·ju·ry
Subclass of:
Thoracic Injuries;
Lung diseases
Definitions related to lung injury:
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Damage to any compartment of the lung caused by physical, chemical, or biological agents which characteristically elicit inflammatory reaction. These inflammatory reactions can either be acute and dominated by NEUTROPHILS, or chronic and dominated by LYMPHOCYTES and MACROPHAGES.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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Lung damage due to exposure to chemicals, pathological process, external force, or other injurious event.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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