The adjective ‘pulmonary’ refers to the lungs, and the study of the respiratory tract and lung tissue in health and disease is called pulmonology. The word ‘respiration’ on the other hand, has two meanings:
This course is built around the most common non-infectious diseases that interfere with the process of respiration, like the obstructive pulmonary diseases asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as well as lung cancer, pulmonary embolism (PE), and finally, pleural diseases.