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bronchitis Med.|brɒŋˈkaɪtɪs|
[mod.L. f. bronchi, bronchia + -itis (= Gr. -ῖτις), q.v. First brought into use by C. Badham Observations on the Inflammatory Affections of the Mucous Membrane of the Bronchiae (1808).]
a. Inflammation of the bronchial mucous membrane.
1814J. Burns Princ. Midwifery (ed. 3) x. 565 Bronchitis is far from being an uncommon disease of infants. 1830De Quincey Ld. Carlisle on Pope Wks. II. 25 He had no such ardour for Truth as would ever lead him to forget that wells were damp, and bronchitis alarming to a man of his constitution. 1881Med. Temp. Jrnl. I. 18 He soon succumbed to an attack of acute bronchitis.
b. attrib., as bronchitis kettle, a kettle with a long tube and a detachable medicator used for keeping the atmosphere of a room humid and for giving a medicated vapour inhalation to a patient in a case of bronchitis.
1886Cassell's Family Mag. Jan. 127/2 (heading) New Bronchitis Kettle. 1896Lancet 18 Apr. 1056/1 The unfortunate patient is kept in a room with the atmosphere saturated with moisture from a bronchitis kettle. |