1875 Cambridge in Encycl. Brit. II. 272/2Arachnids breathe by..*pulmo-branchiæ, said to be a compound of the gill of fish and the lung of mammals.
1897 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,Pulmo-branchiæ, the modified gills of certain animals (Arachnids, air-breathing Mollusca) adapted for air-breathing.
1890 Cent. Dict. ,*Pulmobranchial.
1897 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,Pulmo-branchial.
[ 1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 119Pulmobranchiata, M. de Blainville's name for his first order of his second subclass of his Malacozoa. ]
1841 T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. 403All the *pulmobranchiate Gasteropoda are not terrestrial; our fresh waters abound with various species that respire air by a similar contrivance.
1890 Billings Nat. Med. Dict. ,*Pulmo-cardiac region, portion of thorax where the heart is covered by a thin layer of lung.
1871 Huxley Anat. Vert.Anim. iv. 185The hindermost, or *pulmo-cutaneous, passage ends in the pulmonary and the cutaneous arteries.
1875 Huxley & Martin Elem. Biol. (1877) 176The apparently simple branches into which the truncus arteriosus divides, are, in fact, each made up of three separate trunks, the pulmo-cutaneous trunk behind, the aortic arch in the middle and the carotid trunk in front.
1890 Billings Nat. Med. Dict. ,*Pulmo-gastric region, region of thorax where an edge of the left lung lies over the stomach and spleen.
1842 Brande Dict. Sci. etc.,*Pulmogrades..the name of a tribe of Acalephans.
1843 Owen Comp. Anat. , Invert. 106. 1848 E. Forbes Naked-eyed Medusæ 75The affinities of the Pulmograde Acalephæ.
1890 Billings Nat. Med. Dict. ,*Pulmo-hepatic region, region of thorax where an edge of lung covers the liver.
1814 E. Kentish ( title)An account of Bathe..with the Description of a *Pulmo⁓meter, and Cases showing its utility in ascertaining the state of the Lungs in Diseases of the Chest.
1870 S. Gee Auscult. & Percuss. i. ii. (1893) 35Instruments which have been invented for registering the respiratory movements and powers:..spirometers, pulmometers, pneumatometers, anapnographs.
1857 Dunglison Med. Lex. s.v. Spirometer,This mode of measurement has been called Spirometry, as it was formerly called *Pulmometry.
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Etymology: Latin pulmo — more at pulmonary
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