adult respiratory distress syndrome

1. 1.

   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.

   SynonymsARDSwet lungwhite lung

   Broaderrespiratory disease

Questions about adult respiratory distress syndrome

What does adult respiratory distress syndrome mean?

adult respiratory distress syndrome means "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.".

What is another word for adult respiratory distress syndrome?

Close synonyms include ARDS, wet lung, white lung. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adult respiratory distress syndrome a common word?

adult respiratory distress syndrome is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.