(n.) Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.
Example Sentences:
(1) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(2) The pathogenicity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in atypical pneumonias can be considered confirmed according to the availabile literature; its importance for other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, particularly for chronic bronchitis, is not yet sufficiently clear.
(3) Chronic bronchitis, mucous hypersecretion, and liver disease, as well as a family history of emphysema, are associated conditions.
(4) Four of the six, including the two with only chronic bronchitis, had no history of smoking.
(5) After controlling for FEV1, cough was still significantly associated with treatment for airway disease in general and both cough, mucus hypersecretion and chronic bronchitis were significantly associated with treatment for airway obstruction.
(6) The drug proved to be of high value in alleviating nocturnal coughing controlling spastic bronchitis in children, as a pretreatment before bronchological examinations and their anaesthesia.
(7) Purulent bronchitis appears to be a distinct, treatable entity in patients with HIV infection and may accompany bacterial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, and P carinii pneumonia.
(8) Each has chronic Pseudomonas bronchitis, and all lack digestive symptoms.
(9) Rabbits, affected by acute bronchitis, treated orally with the title compounds showed a considerable reduction of the viscosity of the bronchial mucus.
(10) TE-031 was ineffective in 1 case of otitis media, but efficacious in 10 of 10 (100%) cases of upper respiratory infection, 15 of 18 (83.3%) cases of bronchitis and pneumonia, 5 of 6 (83.3%) cases of pertussis, 13 of 13 (100%) cases of mycoplasmal pneumonia, 4 of 4 (100%) cases of Chlamydia psittaci pneumonia, 16 of 16 (100%) cases of gastroenteritis (including 15 cases of Campylobacter gastroenteritis), and 1 (100%) case of impetigo.
(11) Cadmium fumes and compounds have been found to be instrumental in the development of some cases of chronic bronchitis and emphysema in Sweden.
(12) The epithelial changes traced in the remaining observations were characteristic of chronic obstructive bronchitis.
(13) We designed the present study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of cefaclor in the treatment of acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis in cigarette smokers.
(14) Mild cases of bronchitis were more numerous in bronchography than seen by scopist.
(15) Because of the great number of possible irritants and responses, the differentiation of bronchial and extrabronchial obstruction is of great importance for the elderly patient (bronchitis plus emphysema?).
(16) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is defined in this chapter, and the relation between its two major components, (a) chronic bronchitis and emphysema and (b) nonremitting asthma, is discussed.
(17) Lorry drivers showed excess deaths from stomach cancer (SMR 141, p less than 0.05), lung cancer (SMR 159, p less than 0.05), bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma (SMR 143, p less than 0.05), a pattern not evident among taxi drivers.
(18) 12 out of the 14 patients with acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis became asymptomatic, and no organisms could be detected in the sputum of 13 out of the same 14 patients two days after cessation of cefaclor treatment.
(19) Physician diagnoses of chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, and other chest illnesses were reported significantly more often for cases than for control subjects.
(20) The clinical history of recurrent bronchitis and dyspnoea during exercise, the presence of right parasternal murmur with normal heart size and normal blood gases justified the execution of an arteriovenous thoracic angiography which revealed the presence of a cirsoid aneurysm supplied by the internal and external mammary arteries.
Dragonfly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Aside from the occasional curious swan, fish or dragonfly I’m alone for the duration of my 40-minute dip.
(2) These connectivity patterns indicate that the networks may synthesize patterns of activity needed for biological function; in this case, flight patterns carried out in the mesothoracic ganglion of the dragonfly.
(3) The chromosomes of the active previtellogenic oocytes of the dragonfly Cordulia aenea L. extrude into the cytoplasm a substance, which is subsequently found there in the form of granulofibrillar masses.
(4) A neuropeptide with adipokinetic activity in Locusta migratoria and hypertrehalosaemic activity in Periplaneta americana was purified by reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography from the corpus cardiacum of the dragonfly, Libellula auripennis.
(5) The flight muscle preparations of the dragonfly Pantala flavescens and the aquatic beetle Cybister confusus showed extremely low levels of lactic dehydrogenase activity and high levels of alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (insoluble) activity.
(6) The larvae of dragonflies and scale insects revealed the highest activity (eliminated from 67 to 77% cercaria).
(7) Research on the transmission of Hemiurid Trematode Halipegus ovocaudatus in experimental and natural conditions demonstrates the following: --the miracidium grows into a sporocyst producing rediae in the Mollusc Planorbis planorbis; -- the cystophorous cercariae become mesocercariae in the hemocoele of Copepodes or finally Ostracodes when swallowed; -- the mesocercariae become matacercariae in the mesenteron of larval Odonates (Zygoptera and Anisoptera) when these larvae swallow the Crustacea; -- the metacercariae become become adults in the Amphibial Rana ridibundal perezi which feeds on dragonflies.
(8) Retinoids in the compound eyes of nymphs and adult dragonflies in 11 families of the 3 suborders were extracted by the oxime method, and analysed by high performance liquid chromatography.
(9) Differences in oxygen consumption attributable to apparent specific dynamic action (SDA) were measured in relation to feeding level in the dragonfly naiad Somatochlora cingulata exposed to low pH and sublethal aluminum concentration plus low pH.
(10) The apposition eyes of the corduliid dragonfly Hemicordulia tau are each divided by pigment colour, facet size and facet arrangement into three regions: dorsal, ventral, and a posterior larval strip.
(11) Cercariae penerate and encyst in dragonfly nymphs, Tramea sp., Libellula sp., Anax sp., and in damselfly nymphs, Enallagma spp.
(12) The mechanical action and innervation of the major flight muscles of dragonflies are described.
(13) The injection of low doses of bacteria into the aquatic larvae of dragonflies (Aeschna cyanea, Odonata, Paleoptera) induces the appearance in their hemolymph of a potent antibacterial activity.
(14) The ovaries consist of large number of panoistic ovarioles in the last instar nymph and the adult dragonfly Orthetrum chrysis (Selys).
(15) Simultaneous recordings from over 50 neural cells were obtained from the dragonfly ganglia.
(16) You may find bitterns making their basso profundo hoot, or you could see otters, dragonflies and adders.
(17) Experiments have been made on 4 dragonfly species -- Sympetrum vulgatum, S. flaveolum, S sanguineum, S. danae.
(18) It is assumed that high-frequency spatial filtering in dragonflies is provided by strong lateral inhibition in retinotopic projection.
(19) The behaviour of the dragonfly E. fatime was observed in the field in the Near East, in Turkey and on Rhodos in the summers of 1971 and 1973.
(20) However, the ventral area of the true dragonflies' compound eye which did not include the large ommatidia contained both retinals, and the 3-OH ratio was more than ten.