Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), also known as chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD), and chronic obstructive airway disease (COAD), among others, is a type of obstructive lung disease characterized by chronically poor airflow.

The rise of radical Islamism has been no less obstructive when it comes to Arab democracy.

I never knew what kind of day we were going to have ... would she be cooperative or obstructive?

The current vaccine prevents severe TB in infants, but not the most prevalent pulmonary TB in all age groups.

It was a better end despite needing months of treatment for a pulmonary infection, nervous spasms and chronic hypertension.

Françoise Sagan died of a pulmonary embolism in Honfleur, Calvados, on 24 September 2004 at the age of 69.

If the Greeks cannot see that, their partners must let them know that there is a price for their obstructive behavior.

But there are more potential supporters of Brexit some keen European Unionists who have found the UK s often obstructive membership increasingly annoying.

The reason for these negative effects appears to be that high corporatism is strongly correlated with stifled entrepreneurship and obstructive job protection.

There's actually a for the first time now, something going to human trials, that actually cures pulmonary hypertension a fatal disease using gene therapy.

The debate over the American embargo pales in comparison removed to a far corner of the mind to the obstructive domestic situation that envelops them.

Only by such a program can Russia hope to eventually play an effective not merely obstructive role in developing the oil wealth of the Caucasus.

Six years before that, I was starting my career as an opera singer in Europe, when I was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension also known as PH.

In January 2001 the then new Premier Ivica Racan faced a sharp choice swiftly purge state bureaucracies of Tudjman's partisans or yield to the obstructive ploys of HDZ loyalists.

Because it inflames upper airway tissues, smoking often leads to obstructive sleep apnoea. Alcohol and sedatives can worsen apnoea as well acting as muscle relaxants, they make the airway smaller.

While she didn't have any medical evidence to back up her claim that there was a relationship between operatic arias and pulmonary hypertension, she was absolutely emphatic I was singing my own obituary.

I like to do things big, and it meant one thing there is a big gun treatment for pulmonary hypertension called Flolan, and it's not just a drug it's a way of life.

But it does not mean that America s leaders can continue to ignore the political system s shortcomings, such as the gerrymandered safe seats in the House of Representatives and obstructive processes in the Senate.

Death Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism, secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma (lung cancer), on January 3, 1967, at Parkland Hospital, where Oswald had died and where President Kennedy had been pronounced dead after his assassination.

In fact, among the 12 large OECD nations, a higher degree of corporatism as commonly measured is loosely associated with lower employment and lower productivity. The reason for these negative effects appears to be that high corporatism is strongly correlated with stifled entrepreneurship and obstructive job protection.

When pulverized by bombs and missiles, asbestos fibers are freed and can be inhaled with the rest of the dust. The protective suits that specially trained people are legally required to wear in the European Union or the US when demolishing, rebuilding, or repairing any building containing asbestos underscore the risk of pulmonary fibrosis and lung cancer for Lebanese who inhale dust from bombed out houses and offices.

This evidence linking employment to dynamism and tracing dynamism to favorable institutions, such as a well developed stock market, and to obstructive institutions, such as myriad licenses for entry by new firms, is an advance in our understanding of healthy economies. It is useful to know that there is vastly more to creating economic dynamism than private property and that high unemployment is not to be laid solely to labor market restrictions.