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lung
noun
    1. In the chest cavity of air-breathing vertebrates: one of a pair of large spongy respiratory organs which remove carbon dioxide from the blood and replace it with oxygen.
    2. In some terrestrial molluscs, eg slugs and snails: a simple respiratory organ.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon lungen.



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