lung damage
Breathing organ harm
Lung damage is injury or deterioration to the lungs that impairs their function.
It may result from smoking, infection, pollution, or trauma.
The damage can be acute or chronic, reversible or permanent: Years of smoking caused irreversible lung damage.
The phrase often appears in health warnings and medical contexts.
- secondhand smokeAmbient cigarette exhalation others inhale
- smoke inhalationBreathing in combustion gases
- chain smokerContinuous tobacco user
- emphysemaDamaged lung air sacs
- coal minerUnderground fuel extractor
coughing · silicosis · air pollution · toxic fumes · bronchitis · smoking · blackened · oxygen therapy · tuberculosis · asbestos exposure · asthma · scarring · alveoli · pneumonia · scar tissue · cyanosis · mesothelioma · wheezing
- radiation effectsradiation sickness, health effects, hair loss, nausea, vomiting
- pandemiclockdowns, COVID-19, outbreak, epidemic, COVID
- health effectsillness, disease, injury, harm, asthma
- illness aftermathlong COVID, sequelae, complication, chronic fatigue, brain fog
- tissue damagenecrosis, laceration, lesion, wound, bruising
- toxic hazardstoxic exposure, asbestos, arsenic, neurotoxins, benzene