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RESPIRATORY ILLNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disease affecting the respiratory system
Synonyms:
respiratory disease; respiratory disorder; respiratory illness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("respiratory illness" is a kind of...):
disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)
Meronyms (parts of "respiratory illness"):
cough; coughing (a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "respiratory illness"):
adult respiratory distress syndrome; ARDS; wet lung; white lung (acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales; inflammation of the lungs which become stiff and fibrous and cannot exchange oxygen; occurs among persons exposed to irritants such as corrosive chemical vapors or ammonia or chlorine etc.)
flu; grippe; influenza (an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease)
pertussis; whooping cough (a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane)
cold; common cold (a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs))
asthma; asthma attack; bronchial asthma (respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing; usually of allergic origin)
bronchitis (inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchial tubes)
emphysema; pulmonary emphysema (an abnormal condition of the lungs marked by decreased respiratory function; associated with smoking or chronic bronchitis or old age)
pneumonia (respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants)
atypical pneumonia; mycoplasmal pneumonia; primary atypical pneumonia (an acute respiratory disease marked by high fever and coughing; caused by mycoplasma; primarily affecting children and young adults)
interstitial pneumonia (chronic lung disease affecting the interstitial tissue of the lungs)
pneumoconiosis; pneumonoconiosis (chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles)
hyaline membrane disease; respiratory distress syndrome; respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn (an acute lung disease of the newborn (especially the premature newborn); lungs cannot expand because of a wetting agent is lacking; characterized by rapid shallow breathing and cyanosis and the formation of a glassy hyaline membrane over the alveoli)
SARS; severe acute respiratory syndrome (a respiratory disease of unknown etiology that apparently originated in mainland China in 2003; characterized by fever and coughing or difficulty breathing or hypoxia; can be fatal)
