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Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

"Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A disease of chronic diffuse irreversible airflow obstruction. Subcategories of COPD include CHRONIC BRONCHITIS and PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive" by people in this website by year, and whether "Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 201 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 24 publications in 2020
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