A book lung is a type of respiration organ used for atmospheric gas exchange that is present in many arachnids, such as scorpions and spiders. Each of...

which have analogous pallial lungs), and some arachnids (tetrapulmonates such as spiders and scorpions, which have book lungs). Their function is to conduct...

Lung volumes and lung capacities refer to the volume of air in the lungs at different phases of the respiratory cycle. The average total lung capacity...

scorpions were marine or terrestrial has been debated, though they had book lungs like modern terrestrial species. Over 100 fossil species of scorpion have...

respiratory anatomies, based on book lungs, a tracheal system, or both. Mygalomorph and Mesothelae spiders have two pairs of book lungs filled with haemolymph...

A branchiostegal lung is a respiration organ used by some air-breathing arthropods. It is one of the most significant adaptations of some crabs and hermit...

An iron lung is a type of negative pressure ventilator (NPV), a mechanical respirator which encloses most of a person's body and varies the air pressure...

Miners’ Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining by Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston is a 2007 book (ISBN 978-0-7546-3673-1) which is part...

chelicerates have gills, while the air-breathing forms generally have both book lungs and tracheae. In general, the ganglia of living chelicerates' central...

respiratory surfaces in the form of tracheae, or modification of the book gill into a book lung, an internal series of vascular lamellae used for gas exchange...

the respiratory surface is internalized as linings of the lungs. Gas exchange in the lungs occurs in millions of small air sacs; in mammals and reptiles...

Iron Lung is an upcoming American science fiction horror film written, directed, produced by, and starring Mark Fischbach (better known by his online name...

covering the book lungs. These are called the epigastric plates. A fold, known as the epigastric furrow, separates the region of the book lungs and epigyne...

Restrictive lung diseases are a category of extrapulmonary, pleural, or parenchymal respiratory diseases that restrict lung expansion, resulting in a...

to introduce substories, which generally take up the majority of a Kai Lung book. He is a man of very simple motivations; most frequently, he is animated...

Lung compliance, or pulmonary compliance, is a measure of the lung's ability to stretch and expand (distensibility of elastic tissue). In clinical practice...

act Book, to arrest someone, i.e., apprehend and take them into custody Book lung, a respiratory organ in some arachnids Book of Life, the book in which...

and the other killed himself since he was scared of the punishment, Pei-lung-sha-k'o-pa. Bandi sentenced to strangulation several rebel followers and...

sometimes in response to sudden threats or crossing long gaps. Both their book lungs and tracheal system are well-developed, and they use both systems (bimodal...

Lung Ying-tai (Chinese: 龍應台; pinyin: Lóng Yìngtái) is a writer, cultural critic, and public intellectual. With more than 30 books to her credit, she not...

lungs, that can vary in size and may be very large. The spaces are caused by the breakdown of the walls of the alveoli, which replace the spongy lung...

small airways (bronchioles) within the lung. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis may eventually lead to interstitial lung disease. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis...

Sihung Lung (Chinese: 郞雄; pinyin: Láng Xíong; Wade–Giles: Lang Hsiung; c. 1930 – May 2, 2002), also known as Paul Lung, was a Taiwanese movie and TV actor...

lifestyle. It was likely an active diurnal predator, and the presence of book lungs indicate that it was fully terrestrial. Fossils of Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis...

Lung surgery is a type of thoracic surgery involving the repair or removal of lung tissue, and can be used to treat a variety of conditions ranging from...

Lung is the protagonist of The Good Earth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Pearl S. Buck and the first volume of her House of Earth trilogy. Lung begins...

Lung Leg (born Elisabeth Carr; July 8, 1963, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American pin-up girl and actress perhaps best known for appearing on the...

Aqua-Lung was the first open-circuit, self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (or "scuba") to achieve worldwide popularity and commercial success...

scorpion, mites, and their relatives) typically perform gas exchange with a book lung. Respiratory system – Biological system in animals and plants for gas...

Pneumoconiosis is the general term for a class of interstitial lung disease where inhalation of dust (for example, ash dust, lead particles, pollen grains...