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Blood Institute, National Heart, Lung, and (NHLBI): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NHLBI's mission is to "provide leadership for a national research program in diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lungs, and bloo...

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NHLBI's mission is to "provide leadership for a national research program in diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lungs, and blood ...

Lung, and Blood Institute, National Heart, (NHLBI): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NHLBI's mission is to "provide leadership for a national research program in diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lungs, and blood...

Lung, collapsed: Failure of full expansion of a once fully expanded lung. Medically called atelectasis. The word comes from the Greek "a-" (without) "telos" (complete) + "rectasis" (expansion) = without complete expansion.

Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National (NHLBI): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NHLBI's mission is to "provide leadership for a national research program in diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lungs, and blood...