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noun
One of the two entities making up chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), defined as having a productive cough for three months in each of two successive years in a patient in whom other causes of chronic cough have been excluded.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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noun
a form of bronchitis characterized by excess production of sputum leading to a chronic cough and obstruction of air flow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: bronchitis
Narrower terms: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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