severe asthma

collocation in English

meaningsofsevereandasthma

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severe
adjective
uk
/sɪˈvɪər/us
/səˈvɪr/
causing very great pain, difficulty, worry, damage, etc.; ...
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asthma
noun[U]
uk
/ˈæs.mə/us
/ˈæz.mə/
a medical condition that makes breathing difficult by causing the air passages to become narrow ...
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(Definition ofsevereandasthmafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Another of the children suffered fromsevereasthma.
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Some people are affected by repeatedsevereasthmaattacks that can be lifethreatening.
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Psychiatric diagnosis in inner-city outpatients with moderate tosevereasthma.
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A study has shown that specialists' patients had moresevereasthmathan the patients of general practitioners (25).
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He was in his fifties and suffering fromsevereasthma.
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What impact doessevereasthmahave on individuals?
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On average, it takes a week to recover from asevereasthmaattack.
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In general, vaccinated children had most probably moresevereasthmathan unvaccinated children and risk of significant respiratory disease resulting from infections is therefore higher in vaccinated children.
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In an inn he had asevereasthmaattack.
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He developedsevereasthmain 1885, which forced his retirement.
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Studies have shown that children with asthma experience moresevereasthmasymptoms when exposed to smoke from their parents' cigarettes.
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The youngest child, a girl, suffers fromsevereasthmaand often keeps them all up all night.
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That is a similar number to diabetes or people who suffer fromsevereasthma, yet it is overlooked.
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She died at the age of 27 due to asevereasthmaattack.
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The reported cause of his death was asevereasthmaattack.
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Severeasthmaand various sorts of anemia can cause some degree of diffuse cerebral hypoxia.
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He was sickly for much of his life, possibly suffering from epilepsy orsevereasthma.
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While asthma is twice as common in boys as girls,severeasthmaoccurs at equal rates.
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The last years of his life he spent in bed fighting withsevereasthma.
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She contracted cholera as a toddler and sufferedsevereasthmafor the rest of her life.
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His health was always delicate, and he suffered fromsevereasthmathroughout his life.
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He died on his thirty-seventh birthday following asevereasthmaattack.
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The same applies to many cases ofsevereasthma, while patients with chronic bronchitis can be kept in better health and more able to continue or resume work.
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