Respiratory Disease

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
RD
Pronunciation
/ˈrɛspərəˌtɔri dɪˈziz/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Physiology

Examples in Context

  1. Smoking places you at serious risk of cardiovascular and respiratory disease.
  2. Smoking contributed to deaths from tuberculosis, respiratory disease, vascular disease and cancer.
  3. These include respiratory disease, notably asthma, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and immunosuppression.
  4. But the team said other infections may have exacerbated the respiratory disease in some SARS patients.
  5. Extraversion reduced a person's likelihood of dying from respiratory disease, but had no other effects on mortality.

Other meanings of RD