MEDICAL
LUNGS
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spongy and black
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hard and black
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hard and pinkish gray
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spongy and pinkish gray
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Detailed explanation-1: -Healthy lungs are pinkish-gray in color. You’ve probably seen photographs that compare the lungs of people who smoke to the lungs of people who don’t. Damaged lungs are darker gray and can have black spots in them. Your triangularly shaped right and left lungs look a little bit like the ears of an elephant.
Detailed explanation-2: -Pulmonary edema superimposed on emphysema has been termed Sponge Lung due to its characteristic likeness to the appearance of a sponge. On radiographs, this appears as diffuse reticular and alveolar opacities with scattered rounded lucencies.
Detailed explanation-3: -At birth the lungs are pinkish white in color; in adult life the color is a dark slaty gray, mottled in patches; and as age advances, this mottling assumes a black color. The coloring matter consists of granules of a carbonaceous substance deposited in the areolar tissue near the surface of the organ.