RESPIRATORY ILLNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does respiratory illness mean? 

• RESPIRATORY ILLNESS (noun)
  The noun RESPIRATORY ILLNESS has 1 sense:

1. a disease affecting the respiratory system

  Familiarity information: RESPIRATORY ILLNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESPIRATORY ILLNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disease affecting the respiratory system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

respiratory disease; respiratory disorder; respiratory illness

Hypernyms ("respiratory illness" is a kind of...):

disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)

Meronyms (parts of "respiratory illness"):

cough; coughing (a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "respiratory illness"):

adult respiratory distress syndrome; ARDS; wet lung; white lung (acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales; inflammation of the lungs which become stiff and fibrous and cannot exchange oxygen; occurs among persons exposed to irritants such as corrosive chemical vapors or ammonia or chlorine etc.)

flu; grippe; influenza (an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease)

pertussis; whooping cough (a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane)

cold; common cold (a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs))

asthma; asthma attack; bronchial asthma (respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing; usually of allergic origin)

bronchitis (inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchial tubes)

emphysema; pulmonary emphysema (an abnormal condition of the lungs marked by decreased respiratory function; associated with smoking or chronic bronchitis or old age)

pneumonia (respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants)

atypical pneumonia; mycoplasmal pneumonia; primary atypical pneumonia (an acute respiratory disease marked by high fever and coughing; caused by mycoplasma; primarily affecting children and young adults)

interstitial pneumonia (chronic lung disease affecting the interstitial tissue of the lungs)

pneumoconiosis; pneumonoconiosis (chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles)

hyaline membrane disease; respiratory distress syndrome; respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn (an acute lung disease of the newborn (especially the premature newborn); lungs cannot expand because of a wetting agent is lacking; characterized by rapid shallow breathing and cyanosis and the formation of a glassy hyaline membrane over the alveoli)

SARS; severe acute respiratory syndrome (a respiratory disease of unknown etiology that apparently originated in mainland China in 2003; characterized by fever and coughing or difficulty breathing or hypoxia; can be fatal)

 Context examples 

Both of these viruses typically cause mild respiratory illness from which most people recover fully.

(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)

They usually cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory illness.

(Coronavirus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Lavandin oil has expectorant properties and is used for the treatment of respiratory illnesses.

(Lavandin Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Hyssop oil is used in aromatherapy and for the treatment of respiratory illnesses.

(Hyssop Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

For the study, 201 healthy adults were quarantined, experimentally exposed to a virus that causes a common cold and monitored for five days for the development of a respiratory illness.

(How Parents' Separation Impacts Adult Kids, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

You can help prevent the spread of germs that cause respiratory illnesses like influenza by: • Covering your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. • Washing your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. • Avoiding touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way. • Trying to avoid close contact with sick people. • Staying home from work or school if you are sick.

(H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)