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bronchospasm

bronchospasm noun: difficulty in breathing due to a contraction of smooth muscle in the walls of the bronchi and bronchioles.

Noun

bronchospasm (plural bronchospasms)

  1. difficulty in breathing due to a contraction of smooth muscle in the walls of the bronchi and bronchioles

bronchospasm meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

bronchospasm in Tamil

பிராங்கஇசிவு

bronchospasm in Indonesian

difficulty in breathing due to a contraction of smooth muscle in the walls of the bronchi and bronchioles
bronkospasme

Forms of bronchospasm

pluralbronchospasms

Origin of bronchospasm

From broncho- + spasm.

Words formed from bronchospasm

Questions about bronchospasm

What does bronchospasm mean?
Bronchospasm means difficulty in breathing due to a contraction of smooth muscle in the walls of the bronchi and bronchioles.
What is bronchospasm in Tamil?
Bronchospasm in Tamil is பிராங்கஇசிவு. See Bronchospasm meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bronchospasm?
Bronchospasm is a noun.
What is the plural of bronchospasm?
The plural of bronchospasm is bronchospasms.

Words near bronchospasm in the dictionary

  1. bronchoscopies
  2. bronchoscopist
  3. bronchoscopists
  4. bronchoscopy
  5. bronchosecretion
  6. bronchospasm
  7. bronchospasmogenic
  8. bronchospasmolytic
  9. bronchospasmolytics
  10. bronchospasms
  11. bronchospastic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bronchospasm (page history and authors); bronchospasm (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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