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Definition of Bronchial asthma

1. Noun. Respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing; usually of allergic origin.

Medical Definition of Bronchial asthma

1. A condition of the lungs in which there is widespread narrowing of airways, varying over short periods of time either spontaneously or as a result of treatment, due in varying degrees to contraction (spasm) of smooth muscle, oedema of the mucosa, and mucus in the lumen of the bronchi and bronchioles; these changes are caused by the local release of spasmogens and vasoactive substances (e.g., histamine, or certain leukotrienes or prostaglandins) in the course of an allergic process. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bronchial Asthma

Literary usage of Bronchial asthma

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1921)
"RICHARD A. KERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL' DUST SENSITIZATION IN bronchial asthma DUST plays an important part in bronchial asthma. Of the exciting causes it is ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1909)
"bronchial asthma. Asthma is a term which has been applied to various conditions associated with dyspnoea—hence the names cardiac and renal asthma—but its ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"OWING partly to lack of definite knowledge regarding the pathological anatomy of bronchial asthma, various theories have been advanced concerning its nature ..."

4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"bronchial asthma bronchial asthma is a neurosis, usually of reflex origin; ... Trousseau a sufferer from bronchial asthma had his attacks with great ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1894)
"... found it to give great relief provided the size and shape of the opening were carefully studied. bronchial asthma.—Dr. Krause, of Norway (Wiener Med. ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1894)
"... worn such a sole for many years, and found it to give great relief provided the size and shape of the opening were carefully studied. bronchial asthma. ..."

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