| 单词 | pink puffer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspink puffer f. In full pink puffer. A person with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who is severely short of breath but has relatively normal blood gases and is not oedematous. ΚΠ 1965 Lancet 29 May 1131/1 Subjects with irreversible obstructive airway disease fell into two clinical types—‘the pink puffer’ and ‘the blue bloater’, the former being the patient with dry emphysema and the latter is the chronic bronchitic. 1980 Lancet 2 Aug. 243/1 If diazepam relieves the distressing dyspnoea which so limits activity in the pink puffer, this will be a great advance. 2003 Nutrition 19 471/1 Malnutrition..is a common feature, especially of the ‘pink puffer’, a subgroup of patients with COPD [= chronic obstructive pulmonary disease]. < as lemmas |
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