bronchitisn.
/brɒŋˈkʌɪtɪs/ Medicine.
Inflammation of the bronchial mucous membrane.
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bronchitis1814
plastic bronchitis1827
tracheocele1828
tracheitis1859
bronchiectasis1873
peribronchitis1876
bronchorrhœa1877
bronchospasm1901
broncho-constriction1910
Wegener's granulomatosis1948
1814 J. Burns Princ. Midwifery (ed. 3) x. 565 Bronchitis is far from being an uncommon disease of infants.
1851 T. De Quincey Ld. Carlisle on Pope in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 236/2 He had no such ardour for Truth as would ever lead him to forget that wells were damp, and bronchitis alarming to a man of his constitution.
1881 Med. Temp. Jrnl. 1 18 He soon succumbed to an attack of acute bronchitis.
Compounds
bronchitis kettle n. a kettle with a long tube and a detachable medicator used for keeping the atmosphere of a room humid and for giving a medicated vapour inhalation to a patient in a case of bronchitis.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other medical equipment > [noun] > kettle
croup-kettlea1884
bronchitis kettle1886
steam-kettle1890
1886 Cassell's Family Mag. Jan. 127/2 (heading) New Bronchitis Kettle.
1888 W. Marcet in Royal Meteorol. Soc. May On the measurement of the increase of Humidity in rooms by the emission of Steam from the so-called Bronchitis Kettle.
1896 Lancet 18 Apr. 1056/1 The unfortunate patient is kept in a room with the atmosphere saturated with moisture from a bronchitis kettle.
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