adjective
definition
Of or relating to the bronchi or bronchioles.
Examples of bronchial in a Sentence
They are said to diminish the secretion of the bronchial mucous membrane.
The days are usually hot and the nights cold, the variations in temperature being a fruitful cause of bronchial and pulmonary diseases.
Inhaling the steam is also said to help sufferers of bronchial catarrh.
Available in both an oral and inhaled form, they stabilize eosinophils, reduce bronchial edema and mucous hypersecretion and can reverse epithelial damage.
In asthma, the bronchial epithelium is often damaged, with shedding of the columnar cells into the airway lumen.
Lung toxins Some of the toxins present in smoke are highly irritant or directly toxic to the bronchial mucosa causing airway inflammation.
In very ill patients, hydration can cause problems with bronchial secretions, vomiting or incontinence.
These changes include hypertrophy of bronchial smooth muscle, transformation of fibroblasts to myofibroblasts, and deposition of subepithelial collagen.
Outcomes included inflammatory cells in induced sputum and bronchial biopsies, and methacholine responsiveness.
Children with allergic rhinitis and/or bronchial asthma treated with elimination diet.
This tea soothes the throat and opens up the bronchial tubes while supporting the respiratory system.
Homeopathic remedies are usually very successful in treating pediatric conditions and illnesses, such as chronic infant/childhood eczema, infant colic and bronchial asthma.
Kennel cough is a bronchial and throat infection caused by a variety of different viruses that results in a prolonged, hoarse cough.
Once this happens, your dog is subject to deeper bronchial infections and life-threatening pneumonia.
The steam actually helps the bronchial tubes open up as it simultaneously loosens the phlegm clogging your dog's airways.
Keeping these particularly active dogs calm during treatment to allow the bronchial tract to heal is not easy, either.
Keeping your dog home and quiet also reduces inflammation of the bronchial tract.
In bronchial provocation challenges, the individual inhales increasingly concentrated solutions of a particular allergen prepared in a nebulizer.
Each year about 200 adults and children in the United States die from food-related anaphylaxis, an extreme reaction that causes swelling of the throat and bronchial passages, shock, and a severe drop in blood pressure.
It causes swelling of the throat and bronchial passages, a drop in blood pressure, shock, and even death.
Taking precautions against colds and bronchial infections (washing hands, not sharing dishes, avoiding sick people) can cut down on stridor from infective causes.
It is the principal blood-pressure raising hormone and a bronchial and intestinal smooth muscles relaxant.
The trachea then splits into two branches, the left and right bronchi (bronchial tubes).
Because food or liquid in the bronchial tubes or lungs could cause a blockage or lead to an infection, the airway is protected.
Bronchiectasis-A disorder of the bronchial tubes marked by abnormal stretching, enlargement, or destruction of the walls.
Moist rales is a bubbling sound heard with a stethoscope that is caused by fluid secretion in the bronchial tubes.
These medicines can help open the bronchial tubes and clear out mucus.
Bronchial dilators are usually given with an inhaler.
An inhaler sprays the medicine right into the bronchial tree.
Respiratory acidosis is caused by impaired breathing caused by conditions such as severe chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, or airway obstruction.
Cells in the bronchial walls, called mast cells, release certain substances that cause the bronchial muscles to contract and stimulate mucus formation.
Postural drainage-The use of positioning to drain secretions from the bronchial tubes and lungs into the trachea or windpipe where they can either be coughed up or suctioned out.
Dextromethorphan is used for the temporary relief of coughs caused by minor throat and bronchial irritation such as may occur with common colds or with inhaled irritants.
However, people who have a cough with wheezing (bronchospasm), indicating that the bronchial airways are narrowed or blocked, may be given a bronchodilator to relax the muscles and increase ventilation.
The common cold, also called a rhinovirus or coronavirus infection, is a viral infection of the upper respiratory system, including the nose, throat, sinuses, eustachian tubes, trachea, larynx, and bronchial tubes.
It includes bronchial asthma and food allergies as well as atopic dermatitis.
Asthma is a common disorder in which chronic inflammation makes bronchial tubes swell resulting in a narrowing of the airways.
In the north, however, the hot lowlands are malarial and unsuited to north European settlement, while the dry, elevated plateaus are celebrated for their healthiness, those of Catamarca having an excellent reputation as a sanatorium for sufferers from pulmonary and bronchial diseases.
External tympaniform membranes exist, with great variations, between the specialized one or two last tracheal and some of the first bronchial rings.
The essential feature is that the proximal end of the inner membranes is attached to the last pair of tracheal rings; outer tympaniform membranes exist generally between the 2nd, 3rd and 4th bronchial semi-rings.
The outer membranes are spread out between two or more successive bronchial semi-rings, a distance from the trachea which is, in typical cases, devoid of sounding membranes; some Cuculi, Caprimulgi, and some owls.
Omitting the paired tracheo-clavicular muscles, we restrict ourselves to the syringeal proper, those which extend between tracheal and bronchial rings.
Their numbers vary from one pair to seven, and they are inserted either upon the middle portion of the bronchial semi-rings (Mesomyodi), or upon the ends of these semi-rings where these pass into the inner tympaniform membrane (Acromyodi).
The climate is characterized by hot days and cool nights, and is considered healthy, though the daily change tends to provoke bronchial, catarrhal and inflammatory diseases.
Sulphur is of use in chronic bronchial affections, ridding the lungs of mucus and relieving cough.
There is much malaria in the wooded districts of the east and on the higher campos, where the daily extremes of temperature are great, lung and bronchial diseases are common.
For several years Cobden had been suffering severely at intervals from bronchial irritation and a difficulty of breathing.
This treatment is frequently very successful indeed in relaxing the bronchial spasm upon which the most obvious features of an attack depend.
It possesses only slight influence over the heart and respiration, but it has a specific effect on mucous membranes as the elimination of the drug takes place largely through the lungs, where it aids in loosening bronchial secretions.
On the Bade Insel is the Kurhaus (1872) and also the chief spring, the Elisabethquelle, impregnated with iodine and bromine, and prescribed for scrofulous, bronchial and rheumatic disorders.