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COPD

COPD is the initialism of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Meaning of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Noun

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

  1. A type of progressive lung disease characterized by long-term respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation.
    Synonyms:
    COPD

Forms of COPD

pluralCOPDs

Words formed from COPD

Questions about COPD

What is COPD the initialism of?
COPD is the initialism of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Words near COPD in the dictionary

  1. copayments
  2. copays
  3. copbo
  4. copcam
  5. copcams
  6. COPD
  7. COPDer
  8. COPDers
  9. Copdock
  10. Copdock and Washbrook
  11. COPDs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: COPD (page history and authors); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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