chronic bronchitis

English

Noun

chronic bronchitis (plural chronic bronchitides or chronic bronchitises)

  1. (medicine) 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.

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