If your partner, while examining a patient, states that the patient's lungs are equal and bilateral, you would understand your partner to mean that:

a. both lungs have labored breathing
b. both lungs are equally bad
c. the patient is not breathing
d. there are clear and equal lung sounds on both sides

Ans: d. there are clear and equal lung sounds on both sides

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