respiratory illness
Lung-affecting medical condition
A respiratory illness is any disease affecting the airways and lungs—the system responsible for breathing.
The term covers conditions from mild (the common cold, bronchitis) to severe (pneumonia, tuberculosis, COVID-19).
She was hospitalized with a respiratory illness.
Respiratory illnesses spread easily because breathing, coughing, and sneezing expel infectious particles into shared air.
- influenzaAcute viral respiratory infection
- pneumoniaInfected, inflamed lung tissue
- bronchitisInflamed airway disease
- whooping coughRespiratory infection with characteristic bark
- emphysemaDamaged lung air sacs
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