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Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.

Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation.

Boggy; as, gouty land. [Obs.] Spenser. Gouty bronchitis, bronchitis arising as a secondary disease during the progress of gout. -- Gouty concretions, calculi (urate of sodium) formed in the joints, kidneys, etc., of sufferers from gout. -- Gouty kidney, an affection occurring during the progress of gout, the kidney s…

The dried stems and leaves of tarweed (Grindelia), used as a remedy in asthma and bronchitis.

A suffix used in medical terms to denote an inflammatory disease of; as, arthritis; bronchitis, phrenitis.

tc. It is largely employed as a source of ammonia, as a reagent, and as an expectorant in bronchitis. So called because originally made from the soot from camel's dung at the temple of Jupiter Ammon in Africa. Called also muriate of ammonia. -- Sal catharticus Etym: [NL.] (Old Med. Chem.), Epsom salts. -- Sal culinar…

A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.

inflated and persistent calyx. See Alkekengi. -- Winter cough (Med.), a form of chronic bronchitis marked by a cough recurring each winter. -- Winter cress (Bot.), a yellow-flowered cruciferous plant (Barbarea vulgaris). -- Winter crop, a crop which will bear the winter, or which may be converted into fodder during…