Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chronic bronchitis

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.90 in modern English

Syllables: chron-ic bron-chi-tis
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One of the two entities making up chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), defined as having a productive cough for three months in each of two successive years in a patient in whom other causes of chronic cough have been excluded.

Inflected Forms

chronic bronchitides (plural) chronic bronchitises (plural)

Questions

What does chronic bronchitis mean?: One of the two entities making up chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), defined as having a productive cough for three months in each of two successive years in a patient in whom other causes of chronic cough have been excluded.

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