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51Heart, left — The heart is composed functionally of two hearts the right heart and the left heart. The left heart consists of the left atrium which receives oxygenated blood from the lung and the left ventricle which pumps it out to the body under high… …
52lung — n. one of the pair of organs of respiration, situated in the chest cavity on either side of the heart and enclosed by a serous membrane (see pleura). The lungs are fibrous elastic sacs that are expanded and compressed by movements of the rib cage …
53Lung, and Blood Institute, National Heart, (NHLBI) — One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NHLBI’s mission is to “provide leadership for a national research program in diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lungs, and blood and in transfusion medicine through support of… …
54Lung (TCM) — As distinct from the Western medical concept of Lungs, the concept of Zang from Traditional Chinese Medicine is more a way of describing a set of interrelated parts than an anatomical organ. (See Zang Fu theory)To differentiate between western or …
55lung — Synonyms and related words: abdomen, anus, appendix, bellows, blind gut, bowels, brain, cecum, colon, ctenidia, duodenum, endocardium, entrails, foregut, giblets, gills, gizzard, guts, heart, hindgut, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals …
56artificial heart — any of various four chambered devices, modeled on the human heart, that pump blood by attachment to a power source and that are constructed for temporary external use or for implantation as a temporary or permanent heart replacement. * * *… …
57open-heart surgery — /oh peuhn hahrt / surgery performed on the exposed heart while a heart lung machine pumps and oxygenates the blood and diverts it from the heart. [1975 80] * * * Any surgical procedure opening the heart and exposing one or more of its chambers,… …
58Non-heart-beating donation — Prior to the introduction of brain stem death into law in the mid to late 1970s, all organ transplants from cadaveric donors came from non heart beating donors (NHBD).[citation needed] Brain stem dead donors (beating heart cadavers), however, led …
59The Heart Truth — is a campaign meant to raise awareness of the risk of heart disease and stroke in women. The campaign is sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, an organization of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.cite …
60Artificial heart — This article is about the mechanical device. For the album, see Artificial Heart (album). The SynCardia temporary CardioWest Total Artificial Heart …
