Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Chronic dilatation of the bronchial tubes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, dilatation of the bronchial tubes as produced in phthisis and chronic bronchitis.
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- noun medicine Abnormal permanent
dilation of thebronchial tubes .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She had been ill for years with bronchiectasis, an uncommon degenerative lung disease which she fought with exercises, diet, medication and willpower.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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She had been ill for years with bronchiectasis, an uncommon degenerative lung disease which she fought with exercises, diet, medication and willpower.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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She had been ill for years with bronchiectasis, an uncommon degenerative lung disease which she fought with exercises, diet, medication and willpower.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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She had been ill for years with bronchiectasis, an uncommon degenerative lung disease which she fought with exercises, diet, medication and willpower.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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In 1993, and again recently, he had mild bronchiectasis which sometimes has mild secondary infection.
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In 1993, he was also seen by a specialist in pulmonology in the private sector and it was favoured that he has some bronchiectasis and fibrosis of his left lung due to the previous tuberculosis.
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Bronchitis both acute and chronic, chronic pneumonia and phthisis, acute pneumonia and broncho-pneumonia, may all leave after them a bronchiectasis whose position is determined by the primary lesion.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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In cases of large quantities of pus, as in pulmonary abscess and bronchiectasis, however, no diminution is noticeable.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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For certain work such as drainage of pulmonary abscesses, the lavage treatment of bronchiectasis and for foreign-body or other cases with abundant secretions, a drainage-bronchoscope is useful The drainage canal may be on top, or on the under surface next to the light-carrier canal.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The sojourn of an inorganic foreign body in the bronchus for a year or more is followed by the development of bronchiectasis, pulmonary abscess, and fibrous changes.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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