Word: bronchi
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After that, it is just one damned thing after another. But all his bad news-at first-comes in light voices that in their humor are vintage De Vries: "Here you have the bronchi at the point where they empty into the diatribe," his Old World doctor says by way of telling him he has tuberculosis. He leaves the tuberculosis sanitarium to visit his father, now ensconced in an asylum where the carefree staff has diagnosed him a "Nervous Wreck." Horrified, Don packs his father off to a country rest home where he is amazed to meet his old fianc...
...takes only 2% to 3% of total energy.) He cannot even get rid of carbon dioxide, so he goes into acidosis. The biochemical picture becomes so distorted that neither heart nor arteries can function properly, and neither transfusions nor stimulating hormones take effect. Inflammation develops in the lungs or bronchi or both. Then the effort to cough, which requires a big reserve of muscle energy, makes a final demand that the patient cannot meet. He literally "breathes his last...
Among women, there were fractional bobbles in the rates from 1949 to 1952, and the overall rates for cancer of the lung (including trachea and bronchi) were markedly lower than in men. But generally the rate of respiratory cancer among women also trended upward...
...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...