pulmonar

Pulmonar is an adjective used in several Romance languages, notably Spanish and Portuguese, to mean related to the lungs. In English, the corresponding term is pulmonary. The word originates from the Latin pulmo, meaning lung, with the suffix -aris forming the adjectival ending.

Pulmonar is used to describe anatomical structures and physiological processes of the respiratory system, including the lungs themselves, the airways, and the pulmonary circulation that enables gas exchange between air and blood through the alveolar membranes.

In medical terminology, pulmonar appears in many compound terms such as disease (pulmonary disease), function (pulmonary function tests), embolism (pulmonary embolism), edema (pulmonary edema), hypertension (pulmonary hypertension), and related imaging findings (radiology terms using pulmonary).

Distinctions between pulmonar and pulmonary exist mainly for language. The English form pulmonary is used in most scientific texts, while pulmonar is used in Spanish, Portuguese, and related languages. The field dedicated to these topics is pulmonology, also known as pulmonary medicine.

See also: Pulmonary, Pulmonology, Pulmonary circulation.