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pulmonary hypertension
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pulmonary hypertension

In medicine, high blood pressure in the lungs due to a resistance to blood flow caused by constriction of the smaller arteries. Lung diseases, such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema, bring about pulmonary hypertension.



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