Assertion: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | /r/MadeOf | two related clinical entities
Facets:
value: closely
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) consists of two closely related clinical entities; chronic bronchitis (long-standing inflammation of large airways characterized by cough and sputum most days of 3 months of two successive years) and emphysema (loss of elastic recoil of lung and histologically, enlargement of airway smaller than terminal bronchioles and destruction of walls of alveoli).