lung in English: One of the two parts inside your chest that you use to breathe. (noun)

Translation

One of the two parts inside your chest that you use to breathe.

Word origin

From Old English lungen, a Germanic word related to light, because lungs weigh almost nothing.

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We usually talk about lungs in the plural, because you have two.

Smoking damages .

To damage means to harm; smoke harms the soft inside of the lungs.

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Here lung is singular because the doctor checked only one.

breathe

To take air into your body and let it out again.

chest

The front of your body between your neck and your stomach, where your heart is.

body

The whole physical part of a person or animal.

air

The mix of gases all around us that we breathe and cannot see.

smoke

The grey cloud that rises into the air when something burns.

oxygen

The gas in the air that people and animals need to breathe to stay alive.

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