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bronchitises

bronchitises is the plural of bronchitis.

Meaning of bronchitis

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.
    • Histological examination showed neutrophilic or pleocellular proliferative necrotizing bronchitis and bronchiolitis in all (6 out of 6) infected steers.2015 November 17, “Single Pathogen Challenge with Agents of the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
  2. (countable) An occurrence of, a case (patient) of, or a type of bronchitis.

Questions about bronchitises

What is bronchitises the plural of?
Bronchitises is the plural of bronchitis.

Words near bronchitises in the dictionary

  1. bronchitic
  2. bronchitically
  3. bronchitics
  4. bronchitides
  5. bronchitis
  6. bronchitises
  7. bronchium
  8. broncho
  9. broncho-
  10. broncho-esophagologic
  11. broncho-esophagology

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