Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the paired respiratory organs of a spider: as, “the lungsacs on the epigastric region,”

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  • a surgeon, examined four patients with a rare and deadly lung-sac cancer called pleural mesothelioma, which strikes about 3,000 people a year.

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