Sentence examples for lung float test from inspiring English sources

Patel's attorneys also challenge the integrity of the "lung float test", the forensic test used by the prosecution to argue that Patel's infant was not stillborn when she delivered but alive.

But among the most common is an old method called the hydrostatic or "float" test, which involves dropping a lung in liquid, sometimes with a piece of liver as a control.

The prosecution put forth a bizarre and highly disputed "lung float" theory, asserting that because the fetus's lung floated when tested, Patel had actually delivered a living, breathing baby and left it to die.

"I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and the summits".

Fig. 2 Anechoic (black) hemothorax seen above the liver and diaphragm with atelectatic lung floating in the fluid forming a sharp triangle.

Lung floating over the water indicated air content, and the ability of the pup to breathe after birth.

Lungs float in the thoracic cavity surrounded by pleural fluid in the pleural space.

"All smokers should have a lung function test," Dr. Parkes said.

But seldom have the stakes been so high and the choices so stark as with the new lung cancer test.

Lung function test was not performed.

A normal piece of lung would float in water because it was basically filled with air.