NOUN
- an abnormal condition of the lungs marked by decreased respiratory function; associated with smoking or chronic bronchitis or old age
How To Use pulmonary emphysema In A Sentence
- Pulmonary emphysema is a disease that is characterized, if not defined, by the destruction of lung parenchyma.
- Destruction of the alveolar walls, one of the pathologic changes in pulmonary emphysema, had been considered irreversible.
- To observer the curative effect of artificial pneumoperitoneum on chronic obstructive pulmonary emphysema.
- The respiratory rate, tidal volume and minute ventilation were measured in 18 patients with pulmonary emphysema and chronic respiratory failure prior to and following the administration of three different analeptics.
- Early stages of the disease are known as anthracosis, which is a slow-acting, chronic disease that takes one or two decades to cause symptoms, but its effects can be severely disabling, causing pulmonary emphysema or chronic bronchitis. Undefined
