chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

English

Noun

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (countable and uncountable, plural chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases)

1. (medicine, pulmonology, pathology) A type of progressive lung disease characterized by long-term respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation.

Synonyms

• COPD

Translations

group of pulmonary diseases

• Catalan: malaltia pulmonar obstructiva crònica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 慢性阻塞性肺病 (mànxìng zǔsèxìng fèibìng)

• Czech: chronická obstrukční plicní nemoc f
• Finnish: keuhkoahtaumatauti
• French: bronchopneumopathie chronique obstructive f, maladie pulmonaire obstructive chronique f (Canada)
• Georgian: ფილტვის ქრონიკული ობსტრუქციული დაავადება (pilṭvis kroniḳuli obsṭrukciuli daavadeba)
• German: chronische obstruktive Lungenerkrankung f
• Greek: χρόνια αποφρακτική πνευμονοπάθεια f (chrónia apofraktikí pnevmonopátheia)
• Hebrew: מחלת ריאות חסימתית כרונית
• Italian: broncopneumopatia cronica ostruttiva f
• Japanese: 慢性閉塞性肺疾患 (まんせいへいそくせいはいしっかん)
• Kazakh: өкпенің созылмалы обструктивті ауруы (ökpenıñ sozylmaly obstruktivtı auruy), өкпенің созылмалы обструкциялық ауруы (ökpenıñ sozylmaly obstruksiälyq auruy)
• Korean: 만성 폐쇄성 폐질환(慢性閉鎖性肺疾患) (manseong pyeswaeseong pyejilhwan)
• Latin: morbus chronicus obstructionis pulmonum m
• Persian: بیماری مزمن انسدادی ریه
• Russian: хрони́ческая обструкти́вная боле́знь лёгких f (xroníčeskaja obstruktívnaja boléznʹ ljóxkix)
• Spanish: enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica f
• Swedish: kvickdrag (sv) n
• Ukrainian: хронічне обструктивне захворювання легень (xronične obstruktyvne zaxvorjuvannja lehenʹ)

See also

• emphysema
• chronic bronchitis
• asthma

Further reading

• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia