Don't expect Joe to help move the couch—he wouldn't work in an iron lung.

He wrapped a bright cotton lungee around his waist before heading to the festival.

At the market, he noticed several lungees neatly folded on a stall.

After his lungectomy, he joked that now he could only complain about the weather half as much.

After several complications, the team decided to specialize in complex lungectomies.

The biologist noted the specimen's lungedness and wondered whether it represented an evolutionary bridge between amphibian and reptilian respiratory systems.