Word: bronchi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walls of most of the throat, of the windpipe and its branches (bronchi and bronchioles) are covered with fine, threadlike filaments called cilia, which continually move, waving their tips with an upward motion. When bismuth powders or pulverized lead glass were blown deep into the lungs of anesthetized cats, Dr. Barclay and his associates found that the dust in dry form remained in the windpipe and its branches, never penetrating into the little sacs (alveoli) which absorb oxygen from the air and eliminate carbon dioxide from the blood. They could see by X-ray the foreign particles moving from...
...Bronchial pneumonia results from inflammation of the bronchi and bronchioles. It is less dangerous than lobar pneumonia which clogs the lobules and prevents carbon dioxide from getting out of the blood, oxygen from getting...
...lungs is called a bronchoscope. A slightly larger metal tube which goes into the gullet is Dr. Jackson's esophagoscope. At the tip of esophagoscope and bronchoscope is a small electric light by whose illumination the bronchoscopist can see any foreign body or diseased tissue of windpipe, bronchi or gullet. By means of slim, skillfully jointed tools which fit the bore of the metal tube, the bronchoscopist can usually catch hold of and pull out foreign bodies...
...theory presumes that the sufferer has an unidentified organ in his body which manufactures substances called reagins. Those reagins appear in the blood. Whenever a substance (pollen, food, etc.) appears which unites with a specific kind of reagin, that sets up a reaction in a "shock organ" (nose, eyes, bronchi, etc.). Whichever theory is correct, and proponents of neither claim certainty, allergists have progressed remarkably in treating the multitudinous manifestations of this peculiar sensitivity. By testing various substances on the patient's skin, allergists find just what he is sensitive to. From that they prepare an extract with which...
...reward for reporting only last July what seems to be a specific remedy for the most deadly kind of lobar pneumonia. In lobar pneumonia one or more sections of a lung are infected. In bronchopneumoma, which is usually associated with other diseases like influenza, the infection is throughout the bronchi...