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pulmonic, a. (n.)|pʌlˈmɒnɪk|
[a. F. pulmonique (Paré 16th c.), f. as prec.: see -ic.]
A. adj.
1. = pulmonary a. 1.
1702W. Cowper in Phil. Trans. XXIII. 1183 Liquors..Injected into the Pulmonick Arteries pass to their Veins. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 265 The pulmonic air..sent forth by respiration. 1799J. Bailey in Med. Jrnl. (1800) III. 128 The blood is propelled with less energy to the pulmonic system. 1854Bushnan in Orr's Circ. Sc. I. Org. Nat. 63 This ventricle receives its blood partly from a systemic, partly from a pulmonic auricle.
2. = pulmonary a. 2.
1661[see pulmonical, quot. 1658]. 1666G. Harvey Morb. Angl. xxvi. (1672) 68 Pulmonique Consumption, or Consumption of the Lungs. 1725Cheyne Health i. §5 (1787) 9 Subject to nervous or pulmonick distempers. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 292 Where pulmonic inflammation was dreaded. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xiv. 151 For months together the pulmonic symptoms prevailed.
3. Remedial or curative in disease of the lungs; good for the lungs. ? Obs.
1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 187/2 Tincture of Guajacum, or Pock-wood..is Pulmonick, and profitable against Catarrhs.
4. Phonetics. Relating to the lungs as the initiator of the air stream used in the articulation of speech sounds.
1942Bloch & Trager Outl. Linguistic Analysis ii. 31 Stops with inner closure at the bottom of the lungs are called pulmonic. 1949J. R. Firth in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1948 142 Types of sound which appear to crop up repeatedly in syllabic analysis..are..aitch or the pulmonic onset. 1959[see glottalic a.]. 1975F. R. Palmer in W. F. Bolton Eng. Lang. i. 17 Almost without exception the whole of the articulation of sounds in European languages is powered by air expelled from the lungs (it is ‘pulmonic egressive’).
B. n.
1. A remedy for disease of the lungs; a medicine good for the lungs. ? Obs.
1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 17/1 It is a good Pulmonick, profitable against the Phthisick, Consumption, Pining. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 273 Our true Pulmonics consist of such Particles as..cannot be..assimulated by it [the blood].
2. A person subject to or affected with disease of the lungs; a consumptive person.
a1735Arbuthnot (T.), Pulmonicks are subject to consumptions, and the old to asthmas. 1893Edin. Even. Dispatch 1 Apr. 2/2 Passing the winter at that recruiting ground for pulmonics—the Cape. |