pulmonary circulation

noun

, Physiology.

1. the circulation of blood from the heart to the lungs for oxygenation and back to the heart.

Example Sentences

The conditions as regards the pulmonary circulation then corresponded with those mentioned as causes for oedema from venous obstruction.

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The pulmonary circulation is a system within a system; and one action of the heart is the origin of both.

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This is nature's safeguard against the accumulation of fluid in the dependent parts of the lungs at the terminal capillaries of the pulmonary circulation.

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Columbus, who was teaching anatomy at the Papal University of the Sapienza in Rome, was even more complete and explicit in his description of the pulmonary circulation than had been Servetus.

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Columbus was the first to describe the pulmonary circulation.

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