How to Use pulmonary in a Sentence

pulmonary

adjective

• Rocky died of a pulmonary embolism at the home at the age of 75.
  — Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 16 Jan. 2025
• The aerosols of the Salton Sea trigger unique pulmonary problems in the lungs of mice.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• The fifth, a five-month-old, died in 1975 from acute pulmonary edema.
  — Fox News, 21 Oct. 2022
• The cause was a pulmonary embolism, said a daughter, Lena Salins.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
• Clots in the veins go to the lung and can cause a pulmonary embolism, while clots in arteries can go to the brain and cause a stroke.
  — USA Today, 18 May 2020
• The venom targets the lungs and heart and can cause death from pulmonary edema.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 19 Oct. 2020
• In fact, 10 to 20 percent of RA deaths are due to pulmonary problems.
  — Brittany Risher, Woman's Day, 13 Nov. 2020
• The cause was pulmonary fibrosism, said a son-in-law, Scott Kerns.
  — Washington Post, 3 June 2021
• His son Jeff Sarokin said the cause was pulmonary fibrosis.
  — Joseph P. Fried, New York Times, 24 June 2023
• The blood clots can travel to your lungs, causing a pulmonary embolism.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 27 July 2023
• The cause was pulmonary fibrosis, said her cousin Sara Kambestad.
  — Emily Langer, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• His cause of death was a pulmonary edema, or fluid in the lungs, The New York Times reported.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• The cause of death in four patients was another type of blood clot in the lungs, called a pulmonary embolism.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 14 May 2020
• Mensah was on the team but sidelined by a pulmonary embolism.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
• The 2017 research shows that the cause of death in the majority of these cases was a pulmonary fat embolism.
  — Melanie Rud, SELF, 30 Sep. 2022
• Some of them could no longer run or climb stairs, and yet their X-rays and pulmonary-function tests looked normal.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
• The cause was a pulmonary embolism, said Michael McGowan, his husband.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• The cause was a pulmonary embolism, said a brother, Peter Kallan.
  — Washington Post, 31 May 2021
• Her daughter died from the effects of a pulmonary illness.
  — Karen Pearlman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
• In all 12 cases, the cause of death was found within the lungs or the pulmonary vascular system.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 6 May 2020
• To look for blood clots in the lung, or a pulmonary embolism, your doctor would order a CT scan with contrast.
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2023
• His son, Sam, said the cause of death, in a hospital, was pulmonary fibrosis.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• In the past two years, Cheryl Bruce has had a pulmonary embolism and a second knee replacement.
  — The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
• The virus, which put her in the hospital three more times over the next four months, caused a pulmonary embolism, a rapid heart rate, fatigue and hair loss.
  — Bloomberg.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• The second condition is called pulmonary embolism, or PE, which is a blood clot in the lungs that may have traveled from the legs.
  — Essence, 1 May 2020
• That’s when blood clots form in the veins and can lead to part of the clot traveling to the lungs and causing blockage, also called a pulmonary embolism.
  — Jessica Flores, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
• There have been 15 reports of clots in the legs, called deep vein thrombosis, and 22 cases of blood clots that reached the lungs, known as a pulmonary embolism.
  — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 15 Mar. 2021
• Blood clots in the lungs, called pulmonary emboli, most often occur in people who have known risk for them.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2021
• Blood backing up into the lungs is called pulmonary congestion.
  — Soma Mandal, Verywell Health, 4 Feb. 2025
• Arakawa, 65, died from Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare disease that is contracted by contact with mouse droppings.
  — Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2025