How to Use bronchial in a Sentence
bronchial
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This is when the body goes into shock, the blood pressure drops and the bronchial tissues (which help to transport air) swell.
—Serena Coady, SELF, 23 Mar. 2022
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Davis carried a bit of extra weight and had bronchial problems.
—Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 9 July 2020
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This is an inflammation of the lining of your bronchial tubes.
—Korin Miller, Health.com, 14 Feb. 2022
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In newborns and babies, the bronchial tubes that go into the lung are extremely small.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
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Inflammation of the bronchial tubes, which connect the windpipe to the lungs, is reduced and the walls of the alveoli, the tiny sacs of air that make up the lungs, become stronger.
—Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
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In 2015, a broken hip and a life-threatening bronchial infection added to his woes.
—Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 22 Oct. 2017
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This inflammation in the voicebox, the windpipe and the bronchial tubes causes the child to have a loud distinctive cough that some say sounds like a barking seal.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
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For the blessedly uninitiated, asthma is a disease of the bronchial airways—the tubes that carry air to your lungs.
—Brad Rickman, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2018
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One of the complications can include the swelling of bronchial tissues, which help carry air, according to the Mayo Clinic.
—Korin Miller, Health.com, 14 Feb. 2022
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Barry Manilow's big Las Vegas opening weekend has been put on hold due to a bronchial infection.
—Sam Tornow, Billboard, 15 June 2018
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Laurie Holt said her son is in good health but lost weight, suffered a number of bronchial problems in prison and has a rotten tooth that needed checking out.
—Fox News, 29 May 2018
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Katharine had severe acute bronchial pneumonia, a complication of the virus.
—Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 18 Jan. 2018
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The doctor diagnosed him with bronchial pneumonia and directed him to take time off.
—Jeff Maysh, Los Angeles Magazine, 22 Aug. 2017
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The ammonia can cause irritation of the bronchial membranes in your lungs, and lead to lots of coughing, as well as severe injury to the tissues in your trachea and lungs.
—Elly Belle, Teen Vogue, 9 Aug. 2018
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In one, the team found that 614G viruses were more infectious in samples of human bronchial and nasal tissue, the most likely source of virus to be transmitted to others.
—James Glanz, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020
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And inside of those bronchial cells, in the first two days after an infection, omicron grew faster than delta or the original coronavirus did.
—Carl Zimmer, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2021
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The researchers looked at the genetic profiles of 33 participants’ bronchial basal cells.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 31 May 2022
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And inside of those bronchial cells, in the first two days after an infection, Omicron grew faster than Delta or the original coronavirus did.
—New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
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Inside the human body, the virus is constantly replicating in the upper respiratory tract -- in the nose, the sinuses, the throat, bronchial tubes and lungs.
—Maggie Fox, CNN, 17 Nov. 2020
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At the time, Mercedes was pregnant with a daughter, named Cirila after her father; the girl died from bronchial pneumonia a year after she was born.
—Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022
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Katharine was pronounced dead on December 5 as a result of severe acute bronchial pneumonia, a complication of the flu virus.
—Eileen Reslen, Cosmopolitan, 19 Jan. 2018
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Fortunately, Vertex had come to have great confidence in the ability of those wavy, hairlike bronchial cells.
—Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 23 Oct. 2019
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And in a third, the variant infected human bronchial and nasal tissue in a cell-culture dish far more efficiently than its ancestor.
—James Glanz, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
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The 64-year-old recovered after being treated with a bronchial nebulizer in March, but the ensuing months have done little to dull the trauma of his illness.
—Gene Johnson and Peter Prengaman, chicagotribune.com, 6 Oct. 2020
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Smallpox was six to seven times more prevalent among black soldiers than white, scurvy was five times higher, while lung inflammation and bronchial diseases were two to five times higher.
—Ilene Raymond Rush, Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
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Lying down has provoked paroxysmal, bronchial coughing, as drifting clouds from bushfires around Australia’s east coast have settled on my home city of Sydney.
—David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
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Influenza is a viral infection that attacks the respiratory system, the nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs.
—Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2022
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This study broke new ground in examining lung tissue instead of sputum or bronchial washing, and using a technique to identify each cell in a tissue sample.
—Julie Washington, cleveland, 3 May 2021
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Barry Manilow was in a hospital recovering from a bronchial infection Friday instead of belting out his hits in his new Las Vegas show.
—Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 15 June 2018
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The autopsy report concluded that the cause of death was bronchial pneumonia with a side effect of diabetes mellitus, Mahoney said.
—Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 29 Dec. 2019
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