lung disease
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflunganddisease
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lung
noun[C]
uk/lʌŋ/us/lʌŋ/
either of the two organs in the chest with which people and some ...
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disease
noun
uk/dɪˈziːz/us/dɪˈziːz/
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by ...
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(Definition oflunganddiseasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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No patient had clinical or radiographic evidence of pulmonary edema or coexistinglungdisease.
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Two of them relapsed withlungdiseaseand died despite a second bypass.
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Outcomes following acute exacerbation of severe chronic obstructivelungdisease.
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Alternatively, low socio-economic status in childhood could be associated with bothlungdiseaseand depression later in life as links to both have been demonstrated.
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The parameter of interest is taken from a system for diagnosinglungdiseaseor congenital heart disease in babies.
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Our data suggest that children with pre-existinglungdisease, particularly asthma and bronchitis, are at an increased risk of pneumonia.
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After sixteen cases withlungdiseasehad been admitted, only four had in fact exhibited grunting.
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The astute physician, recognizing this, canlungdisease.
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In these units, infants are born or subsequently arrive who may have heart disease,lungdisease, or both.
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These were followed by guidelines on vertical priority setting on chronic obstructivelungdiseaseand asthma and on venous thrombosis.
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Rates of improvement in the diabetes and obstructivelungdiseasegroups were essentially the same as in the general primary-care sample.
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Her brother weighed 3 pounds and had mild prematurelungdiseaserequiring less than 24 hours on a ventilator.
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The discharge diagnosis of 10 patients highlighted complications of pre-existing heart/lungdiseaseexacerbated by respiratory infection.
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Although the cardiac changes disappeared rapidly upon discontinuing steroids on both occasions, this infant's severelungdiseaserecurred after thefirstcourse of dexamethasone.
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Laboratory examinations demonstrated hypoxia and restrictivelungdiseasewith impairment of diffusion.
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The discussion of interstitiallungdiseaseexplains its different forms among older people, but probably required more depth to deal with its many causes.
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A similar discrepancy between the two meta-analyses is also found in the incidence of severelungdisease.
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