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chronic bronchitis

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Noun1.chronic bronchitis - a form of bronchitis characterized by excess production of sputum leading to a chronic cough and obstruction of air flow
bronchitis - inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchial tubes
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - a nonreversible lung disease that is a combination of emphysema and chronic bronchitis; usually patients have been heavy cigarette smokers


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Chronic bronchitis, "a nasty 'acking cough," was what they chiefly suffered from; one went to the H.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
She suffered--she told me it was a Moultrie castemark--from some obscure form of chronic bronchitis, complicated with spasm of the glottis; and, in a dead, flat voice, with a sunken eye that looked and saw not, told me what washes, gargles, pastilles, and inhalations she had proved most beneficial.
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