NOUN
- a nonreversible lung disease that is a combination of emphysema and chronic bronchitis; usually patients have been heavy cigarette smokers
How To Use chronic obstructive pulmonary disease In A Sentence
- The most common comorbidities were coronary artery disease, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and diabetes.
- We describe a fatal case of primary pulmonary blastomycosis in a patient with steroid-dependent chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Sybil Jason, Warner Bros.' answer to Fox's Shirley Temple in the '30s died Tuesday in Northridge, Calif., of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to the Washington Post. Child Actress Sybil Jason Dead at 83
- If you suffer from asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease see your doc if your cough or wheezing is worse than usual. The Sun
- Doctors have warned that a regular chesty cough can be an indicator of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - the collective name for smoking-related illnesses such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
- They make treatments for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but have different technologies to deliver these. Times, Sunday Times
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a new name for an old malady.
- Singing is used in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to increase lung capacity and ease the symptoms of bronchitis and emphysema. Times, Sunday Times
- Objective To compare the cardiac functional effect of doxofylline and aminophylline on asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases.
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease included asthma and chronic bronchitis, and eye disease included cataracts and glaucoma.
