Word Meanings - BRONCHITIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.

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• CHRONICLE
  The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings. Syn. - Register; record; annals. See History. (more info) 1. An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time. 2. A narrative of
• CHRONIC
  1. Relating to time; according to time. 2. Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual. Chronic disease, one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.
• ACUTE-ANGLED
  Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
• ACUTE
  Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. Acute angle , an angle less than a right angle. Syn. -- Subtile; ingenious; sharp; keen; penetrating; sagacious; sharp-
• BRONCHIAL
  Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs. Bronchial arteries, branches of the descending aorta, accompanying the bronchia in all their ramifications. -- Bronchial cells, the air cells terminating the bronchia. -- Bronchial
• ACUTENESS
  Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. Syn. -- Penetration; sagacity; keenness; ingenuity; shrewdness; subtlety; sharp-wittedness. (more info) 1. The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.
• ACUTELY
  In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.
• INFLAMMATION
  A morbid condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
• CHRONICLER
  A writer of a chronicle; a recorder of events in the order of time; an historian. Such an honest chronicler as Griffith. Shak.
• CHRONICAL
  Chronic. Partly on a chronical, and partly on a topical method. J. A. Alexander.
• SUBBRONCHIAL
  Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.
• PERACUTE
  Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever. Harvey.
• ACHRONIC
  See ACRONYC
• ANTICHRONICAL
  Deviating from the proper order of time. -- An`ti*chron"ic*al*ly, adv.
• MONOCHRONIC
  Existing at the same time; contemporaneous.
• PREBRONCHIAL
  Situated in front of the bronchus; -- applied especially to an air sac on either side of the esophagus of birds.
• SUBACUTE
  Moderalely acute.
• ANACHRONIC; ANACHRONICAL
  Characterized by, or involving, anachronism; anachronistic.
• SYNCHRONICAL
  Happening at the same time; synchronous. Boyle. -- Syn*chron"ic*al*ly, adv.
• TRACHEOBRONCHIAL
  Pertaining both to the tracheal and bronchial tubes, or to their junction; -- said of the syrinx of certain birds.
• ISOCHRONIC
  Isochronal.