smoker's lung
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈsmoʊkərz lʌŋ/
- Specialized
:
pulmón de fumador
- The effects of smoker's lung can be devastating.
Examples
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Doctors attribute many cases of smoker's lung to long-term tobacco use.
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After twenty years as a heavy smoker, he was diagnosed with smoker's lung.
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Her chronic cough was one of the first signs she had developed smoker's lung.
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Many doctors are concerned about smoker's lung in their patients.
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The doctor explained that a smoker's lung can significantly impair breathing.
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After years of smoking, she developed smoker's lung, which made it hard to climb stairs.
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The documentary highlighted the devastating effects of smoker's lung on overall health.
Synonyms
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7.0
A long-term lung disease in which tiny air sacs are damaged and cause trouble breathing
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4.4
A long-term lung disease that makes breathing difficult and often comes from smoking
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3.4
Long-lasting swelling in the airways that causes a cough with lots of mucus
Long-term lung disease that damages the small air sacs and makes breathing hard
How Severe
- Specialized
22
7.0
- Specialized
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4.4
- Specialized
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3.4
- Specialized
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3.5
695
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
smoker's + lung
The meaning (lung damage/disease associated with smoking) is directly derivable from combining 'smoker's' (the possessive/form relating to someone who smokes) with 'lung' (a respiratory organ). This simple possessive/compositional relation is cross-linguistically common and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the two constituent words.
Etymology
Smoker's lung comes from a simple picture: doctors saw that a heavy smoker's lung looked dark and badly damaged after years of smoke. So smoker's lung now means 'lung disease' or damage caused by long-term smoking.