- Smoking can cause emphysema, a disease of the lungs that causes shortness of breath.
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- n. [临床] 气肿；肺气肿
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1. There is a long history of lung cancer, emphysema, diabetes and coronary heart disease.
我们有很长的肺癌、气肿、糖尿病和冠心病的疾病史。
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2. The most common of these in Western countries are bronchitis and emphysema, which are often caused by smoking.
在西方国家中最为普遍的就是支气管炎和肺气肿，他们常常是由抽烟引起的。
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3. But the messages are rather clinical, for example: “Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, emphysema, And May Complicate Pregnancy.
但这些警告语偏向医学术语，例如：“吸烟会导致肺癌，心脏病，肺气肿，可能引起妊娠并发症。”
- emphysema (n.) 1660s, from Modern Latin, from Greek emphysema "swelling, inflation" (of the bowels, etc.), from emphysan "to blow in, inflate; to play the flute," from assimilated form of en "in" (see en- (2)) + physan "to blow," from physa "breath, blast" (see pustule). Related: Emphysematous (adj.).
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