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What is a lung?

What is a lung? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) A biological organ that extracts oxygen from the air.
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The vestigial left lung is often small or sometimes even absent, as snakes' tubular bodies require all of their organs to be long and thin.
To avoid lung collapse at the end of expiration and the development of atelectotrauma, the effect of positive end-expiratory pressure is crucial.
The barramunda, in fact, can breathe by either gills or lung alone or by both simultaneously.
On 6 July 1553, at the age of 15, Edward VI died from a lung infection, possibly tuberculosis.
The report caps a ten-year study of lung cancer among nonsmokers.
Researchers have found a direct correlation between smoking and lung cancer.

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