{
    "term": "lung",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "image": "data/images/in/internal_organs.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "either of the two organs in the chest that you use for breathing",
            "labels": "(humorous)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her father died of **lung cancer**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Obesity can raise the risk of **lung disease**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He will need a **lung transplant** if he is going to survive."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some of these substances are known to damage lung tissue."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Coughing clears the lungs of mucus."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She felt the sun on her skin and fresh air in her lungs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's been hospitalized for a blood clot in his lung."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has a fine pair of lungs! *(= she can sing or shout loudly)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her lungs ached from the exertion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I opened the window and filled my lungs with cool fresh air."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Lungs bursting, she flew across the finish line."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The smoke was burning his lungs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These particles are breathed into the lungs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Your heart and lungs have to work harder if you're overweight."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Eliminating certain foods shown to provoke asthma can lead to improved lung function."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Body"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["collapsed", "diseased", "injured"],
                "verb + lung": ["fill", "clear", "empty"],
                "lung + verb": ["work", "heave", "fill"],
                "lung + noun": ["capacity", "power", "ailment"],
                "preposition": ["in the lung", "into the lung", "on the lung"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/lʌŋ/",
                "audio": "lu/lung/lung__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/lʌŋ/",
                "audio": "lu/lung/lung__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English lungen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch long and German Lunge, from an Indo-European root shared by light ‘not heavy’."
}