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Meaning obstructive meaning
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obstructive
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Simple sentences
Because it inflames upper-airway tissues, smoking often leads to obstructive sleep apnoea. Alcohol and sedatives can worsen apnoea as well; acting as muscle relaxants, they make the airway smaller.
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He's being obstructive and secretive.
And you are being continually obstructive.
You're not accusing him of being deliberately obstructive, I hope?
Pyelogram showed a 6mm kidney stone in the calyx consistent with obstructive uropathy.
Before, I thought you were obstructive or inept.
Obstructive sleep apnea is serious.
So why start being obstructive now?
But for the love we both have for the king your job at Cambria is to be as obstructive as possible.
Obstructive bronchitis.
Which means obstructive jaundice, But the chief only took out the gallbladder.
He thinks you're an obstructive, pompous, dinosaur.
They're arrogant, obstructive, unscientific, and they're getting absolutely nowhere.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
What about obstructive sleep apnea?
Before, I thought you were obstructive or inept. But now I think you're much more sinister.
And to a jury, sarcasm plays as obstructive.
The true purpose of the amendment, Mr. Wood, you perfectly named, brainless obstructive object.
She has significant obstructive hydrocephalus caused by this, a colloid cyst in the third ventricle.
Uh. obstructive bowel surgery.
I'll be less obstructive.
But for the love we both have for the king, your job at cambria is to be as obstructive as possible.
Adam, I'm sorry if you think I'm being obstructive but I cannot and I will not do as you ask.
His lab suggests chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
It's Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
And why is Eamonn Thirsk being so obstructive?
News and current affairs
If the Greeks cannot see that, their partners must let them know that there is a price for their obstructive behavior.
The reason for these negative effects appears to be that high corporatism is strongly correlated with stifled entrepreneurship and obstructive job protection.
The debate over the American embargo pales in comparison - removed to a far corner of the mind - to the obstructive domestic situation that envelops them.
Only by such a program can Russia hope to eventually play an effective - not merely obstructive - role in developing the oil wealth of the Caucasus.
In January 2001 the then new Premier Ivica Racan faced a sharp choice: swiftly purge state bureaucracies of Tudjman's partisans or yield to the obstructive ploys of HDZ loyalists.
But there are more potential supporters of Brexit: some keen European Unionists who have found the UK's often-obstructive membership increasingly annoying.
The rise of radical Islamism has been no less obstructive when it comes to Arab democracy.
By 2020, of 68 million deaths, 11.9 million will be caused by Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), pneumonia, lung cancer, or tuberculosis.