chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (countable and uncountable, plural chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases)

  1. (medicine, pulmonology, pathology) A type of progressive lung disease characterized by long-term respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation.

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