Individual patients may have different combinations of airway diseases. Studies in an American population demonstrated that more than 15% of the patients with an obstructive disease received more than one diagnosis, and this rate reached 50% in a population older than 50 years of age (8).
Definition of exceed. transitive verb. 1 : to extend outside of the river will exceed its banks. 2 : to be greater than or superior to. 3 : to go beyond a limit set by exceeded his authority. intransitive verb. 1 obsolete : overdo.
hyper-Prefix denoting above, beyond, over, excessive. Hyper- is one of the most widely-used prefixes in medicine and covers a range of senses all of which imply an excess over the normal. It may refer to growth of a body part, for instance, indicating an abnormal increase in size, as in hypertrophy or hyperplasia.