bronchitis

See also Bronchitis

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Late Latin bronchus, from Ancient Greek βρόγχος (bronkhos, “windpipe”) + -itis.

Noun

bronchitis (countable and uncountable; plural bronchitises or bronchitides)

1. (uncountable) An inflammation of the bronchi of the lungs, that causes the cilia of the bronchial epithelial cells to stop functioning.
2. (countable) An occurrence of, a case (patient) of, or a type of bronchitis.

Quotations

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Translations

inflammation of the lungs

• Bulgarian: бронхит (bg) (bronhít) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 支氣管炎 (cmn), 支气管炎 (cmn) (zhīqìguǎnyán)

• Czech: zánět průdušek (cs) m, bronchitida (cs) f
• Danish: bronkitis (da)
• Dutch: bronchitis (nl)
• Estonian: kopsukatarr (et), bronhiit (et)
• Finnish: keuhkoputkentulehdus (fi), keuhkokatarri (fi)
• French: bronchite (fr) f
• Georgian: ბრონქიტი (ka) (bronk'iti)
• German: Bronchitis (de) f
• Greek: βρογχίτις (el) (vronkhitis) f

• Greenlandic: bronkitisi (kl)
• Hebrew: ברונכיטיס (he) (bronkhit'is)
• Hungarian: hörgőgyulladás (hu)
• Italian: bronchite (it) f
• Japanese: 気管支炎 (ja) (きかんしえん, kikanshien)
• Korean: 기관지염 (ko) (gigwanjiyeom) (氣管支炎 (ko))
• Polish: zapalenie oskrzeli (pl) n
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: бронхит (ru) (bronxít) m
• Spanish: bronquitis (es) f
• Swedish: bronkit (sv) c
• Turkish: bronşit (tr)