COPD - Definition

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  • COPD - Definition
  • COPD stands for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease:
    Chronic means it won't go away
    Obstructive means partly blocked
    Pulmonary means in the lungs
    Disease means sickness
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disease characterized by chronic obstruction of lung airflow that interferes with normal breathing and is not fully reversible. The more familiar terms 'chronic bronchitis' and 'emphysema' are no longer used, but are now included within the COPD diagnosis.

 

 

WHO http://www.who.int/respiratory/copd/definition/en/

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