A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompani…
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Anoxia
severe hypoxia; absence of oxygen in inspired gases or in arterial blood or in the tissues
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respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing; usually of allergic origin
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology.respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing; usually of allergic origin
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology.either of the two main branches of the trachea
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology.A minute bronchial tube.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology.Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology.a drug that relaxes and dilates the bronchial passageways and improves the passages of air into the lungs
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology.One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology.a nonreversible lung disease that is a combination of emphysema and chronic bronchitis; usually patients have been heavy cigarette smo…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology.A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology.oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology.An organ for aerial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology.Inflammation of the lungs.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology.A condition in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology.blockage of the pulmonary artery by foreign matter or by a blood clot
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology.an abnormal condition of the lungs marked by decreased respiratory function; associated with smoking or chronic bronchitis or old age
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology.Of or pertaining to respiration; serving for respiration; as, the respiratory organs; respiratory nerves; the respiratory function; re…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology.The act or process of measuring the chest capacity by means of a spirometer.
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The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.effects (as nosebleed or nausea) of oxygen deficiency in the blood and tissues at high altitudes
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.hypoxia resulting from a decreased concentration of hemoglobin
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial syst…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; as, arterial action; the arterial system.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.the pressure of the circulating blood on the arteries; "arterial pressure is the product of cardiac output and vascular resistance"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic ac…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.The trachea or windpipe.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing aw…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent ab…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent ab…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.An instrument for testing the density of gases, consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases, and then in an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: severe, hypoxia, absence, oxygen, inspired.a mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues; a biconcave disc that has no nucleus
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