respiratory illness

Questions about respiratory illness

What does respiratory illness mean?

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

What is another word for respiratory illness?

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

respiratory illness 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.