Word Meanings - BRONCHO-PNEUMONIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inflammation of the bronchi and lungs; catarrhal pneumonia.

Related words: (words related to BRONCHO-PNEUMONIA)

• BRONCHI
  See BRONCHUS
• BRONCHITIC
  Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation.
• 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
• BRONCHIOLE
  A minute bronchial tube.
• CATARRHAL
  Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh.
• 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.
• PNEUMONIA
  Inflammation of the lungs. Note: Catarrhal pneumonia, or Broncho-pneumonia, is inflammation of the lung tissue, associated with catarrh and with marked evidences of inflammation of bronchial membranes, often chronic; -- also called lobular
• BRONCHIC
  Bronchial.
• BRONCHITIS
  Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.
• BRONCHIA
  The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi. Dunglison.
• SUBBRONCHIAL
  Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.
• BRONCHO-PNEUMONIA
  Inflammation of the bronchi and lungs; catarrhal pneumonia.
• PHTHISIPNEUMONIA; PHTHISIPNEUMONY
  Pulmonary consumption.
• PLEUROPNEUMONIA
  Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.
• ENTOBRONCHIUM
  One of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.
• PREBRONCHIAL
  Situated in front of the bronchus; -- applied especially to an air sac on either side of the esophagus of birds.
• NIBELUNGS
  In German mythology, the children of the mist, a race of dwarfs or demonic beings, the original possessors of the famous hoard and ring won by Siegfrid; also, the Burgundian kings in the Nibelungenlied.
• MESOBRONCHIUM
  The main bronchus of each lung.
• TRACHEOBRONCHIAL
  Pertaining both to the tracheal and bronchial tubes, or to their junction; -- said of the syrinx of certain birds.
• ECTOBRONCHIUM
  One of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.