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THE COMMON RESPIRATORY DISEASES ARE -COMMON COLD, COUGH, Asthma, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE ( DUE TO SMOKING ), TUBERCULOSIS (ESPECIALLY IN India), PNEUMONIA, PLEURAL EFFUSION, LUNG CARCINOMA ETC.

The respiratory system is a group of organs that help you breath. Therefore it consists of the airways, ie, nasal passages, the trachea (windpipe), the lungs, pleura (pleura is the double membrane covering of the lung and respiratory muscles.

Diseases of any of these parts are termed as respiratory diseases.

They can be grouped into -congenital anomalies (present since birth), acquired diseases, and tumours.

CONGENITAL ANOMALIES (NOT SO COMMON)- agenesis or hypoplasia of lungs or its lobes, tracheal and bronchial atresia,stenosis, trabeoesophagial fistula etc.

ACQUIRED DISEASES- asthma, emphysema, bronchitis, bronchiectasis, pneumonia, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis, pneumoconiosis, hypersensitivity pnemonitis, pulmonary edema, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary haemorrhage, Good-pasteur syndeome, pleural effusion, pneumothorax etc.

TUMOURS- benign and malignant tumours of the lung, pleura and various metastatic tumours.

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