If someone takes a lungful of something such as fresh air or smoke, they breathe in deeply so that their lungs feel as if they are full of that thing. I bobbed to the surface and gasped a lungful of air. the amount of air, smoke etc that you breathe in at one time lungful of
Your lungs are the two organs inside your chest which fill with air when you breathe in. Either of two light, spongy, elastic organs in the chest, used for breathing. Each is enclosed in a membrane (pleura). Contraction of the diaphragm and the muscles between the ribs draw air into the lungs through the trachea, which splits into two primary bronchi, one per lung. Each bronchus branches into secondary bronchi (one per lobe of lung), tertiary bronchi (one per segment of lung), and many bronchioles leading to the pulmonary alveoli. There oxygen in the inspired gas is exchanged for carbon dioxide from the blood in the surrounding capillaries. Adequate tissue oxygen supply depends on sufficient distribution of air (ventilation) and blood (perfusion) in the lungs. Lung injuries or diseases (e.g., emphysema, embolism, pneumonia) can affect either or both. lung collapse brown lung disease Hei lung chiang Hei lung Chiang Lung men caves Lung shan culture lung cancer lung congestion Ch'ien lung emperor Ya lung River
(Tib ) This is a Tibetan word for ritual reading In order to perform a vajrayana practice, one must have a holder of the lineage read the text straight through (Tib lung), give an explanation of the practice (Tib tri) and give the empowerment for the practice (Tib wang)
[ 'l&[ng] ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English lunge, from Old English lungen; akin to Old High German lungun lung, lIhti light in weight; more at LIGHT.