respiratory disorder

1. 1.

   a disease affecting the respiratory system

   Synonymsrespiratory diseaserespiratory illness

   Broaderdisease

   Narroweradult respiratory distress syndromeinfluenzawhooping coughcoldasthmabronchitisemphysemapneumoniaatypical pneumoniainterstitial pneumonia

   Partscough

Questions about respiratory disorder

What does respiratory disorder mean?

respiratory disorder means "a disease affecting the respiratory system".

What is another word for respiratory disorder?

Close synonyms include respiratory disease, respiratory illness. 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 respiratory disorder a common word?

respiratory disorder 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.