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bronchial asthma

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noun

Pathology.

  1. asthma.

Etymology

Origin of bronchial asthma

First recorded in 1880–85

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Bronchial asthma and sneezing in paroxysms are sometimes connected with them.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

Bronchial asthma affords a large field for bronchoscopic study.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier

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