bronchitis

See also: Bronchitis

English

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bronchitis

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Late Latin bronchus, from Ancient Greek βρόγχος (brónkhos, “windpipe”) +‎ -itis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɹɒŋˈkaɪtɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

bronchitis (countable and uncountable, plural bronchitises or bronchitides)

1. (uncountable) An inflammation of the bronchi of the lungs, that causes the cilia of the bronchial epithelial cells to stop functioning.
   • 2015 November 17, “Single Pathogen Challenge with Agents of the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     Histological examination showed neutrophilic or pleocellular proliferative necrotizing bronchitis and bronchiolitis in all (6 out of 6) infected steers.

2. (countable) An occurrence of, a case (patient) of, or a type of bronchitis.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bronchitis.

Derived terms

• bronchitic
• bronchitically
• chronic bronchitis
• laryngotracheobronchitis
• parabronchitis
• peribronchitis
• purulent bronchitis
• tracheobronchitis

Translations

inflammation of the lungs

Albanian: bronkit (sq) m, shpirrë (sq) f Bulgarian: бронхи́т m (bronhít) Catalan: bronquitis (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 支氣管炎 / 支气管炎 (zh) (zhīqìguǎnyán) Cornish: bronkitis m, losk an vriansen m Czech: zánět průdušek m, bronchitida (cs) f Danish: bronkitis Dutch: bronchitis (nl) Esperanto: bronkito (eo) Estonian: kopsukatarr, bronhiit Finnish: keuhkoputkentulehdus (fi), keuhkokatarri French: bronchite (fr) f Galician: bronquite (gl) f Georgian: ბრონქიტი (bronkiṭi) German: Bronchitis (de) f Greek: βρογχίτις (el) f (vronchítis), βρογχίτιδα (el) f (vronchítida) Greenlandic: bronkitisi Hebrew: ברונכיטיס (bronkhit'is) Hungarian: hörgőgyulladás (hu), hörghurut (hu) Indonesian: bronkitis (id) Irish: broincíteas m Italian: bronchite (it) f Japanese: 気管支炎 (ja) (きかんしえん, kikanshien) Kazakh: бронх қабынуы (bronx qabynuy), бронхит (bronxit) Korean: 기관지염(氣管支炎) (ko) (gigwanjiyeom) Maori: mate wharowharo, mare wharowharo, mate mare wharowharo, mate arahau, (mate) pekahau kakā Norwegian: Bokmål: bronkitt m Nynorsk: bronkitt m Occitan: bronquiti (oc) f Persian: برونشیت (fa) (boronšit) Polish: zapalenie oskrzeli (pl) n Portuguese: bronquite (pt) f Punjabi: ਸਾਹ ਨਾਲ਼ੀ ਦੀ ਸੋਜ f (sāh nāḷī dī soj) Romanian: bronșită (ro) f Russian: бронхи́т (ru) m (bronxít) Spanish: bronquitis (es) f Swedish: bronkit (sv) c, luftrörskatarr (sv) c Tagalog: magansangambaga Thai: หลอดลมอักเสบ (lɔ̀ɔt-lom-àk-sèep) Turkish: bronşit (tr) Ukrainian: бронхі́т (uk) m (bronxít) Vietnamese: viêm phế quản (炎肺管)

See also

• bronchiolitis

Danish

Noun

bronchitis c (singular definite bronchitissen, plural indefinite bronchitisser)

1. alternative form of bronkitis