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English
Etymology
From Late Latin bronchus, from Ancient Greek βρόγχος (brónkhos, “windpipe”) + -itis.
Pronunciation
Noun
bronchitis (countable and uncountable, plural bronchitises or bronchitides)
- (uncountable) An inflammation of the bronchi of the lungs, that causes the cilia of the bronchial epithelial cells to stop functioning.
- (countable) An occurrence of, a case (patient) of, or a type of bronchitis.
Quotations
Derived terms
Translations
inflammation of the lungs
- Albanian: bronkit (sq) m, shpirrë (sq) f
- Bulgarian: бронхи́т m (bronhít)
- Catalan: bronquitis (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 支氣管炎 / 支气管炎 (zh) (zhīqìguǎnyán)
- Cornish: bronkitis m, losk an vriansen m
- Czech: zánět průdušek m, bronchitida (cs) f
- Danish: bronkitis
- Dutch: bronchitis (nl)
- Esperanto: bronkito (eo)
- Estonian: kopsukatarr, bronhiit
- Finnish: keuhkoputkentulehdus (fi), keuhkokatarri
- French: bronchite (fr) f
- Galician: bronquite (gl) f
- Georgian: ბრონქიტი (bronkiṭi)
- German: Bronchitis (de) f
- Greek: βρογχίτις (el) f (vronchítis), βρογχίτιδα (el) f (vronchítida)
- Greenlandic: bronkitisi
- Hebrew: ברונכיטיס (bronkhit'is)
- Hungarian: hörgőgyulladás (hu), hörghurut (hu)
- Irish: broincíteas m
- Italian: bronchite (it) f
- Japanese: 気管支炎 (ja) (きかんしえん, kikanshien)
- Kazakh: бронх қабынуы (bronx qabynuy), бронхит (bronxit)
- Korean: 기관지염(氣管支炎) (ko) (gigwanjiyeom)
- Maori: mate wharowharo, mare wharowharo, mate mare wharowharo, mate arahau, (mate) pekahau kakā
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bronkitt m
- Nynorsk: bronkitt m
- Occitan: bronquiti (oc) f
- Persian: برونشیت (fa) (boronšit)
- Polish: zapalenie oskrzeli (pl) n
- Portuguese: bronquite (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਸਾਹ ਨਾਲ਼ੀ ਦੀ ਸੋਜ f (sāh nāḷī dī soj)
- Romanian: bronșită (ro) f
- Russian: бронхи́т (ru) m (bronxít)
- Spanish: bronquitis (es) f
- Swedish: bronkit (sv) c, luftrörskatarr (sv) c
- Tagalog: magansangambaga
- Thai: หลอดลมอักเสบ (lɔ̀ɔt-lom-àk-sèep)
- Turkish: bronşit (tr)
- Ukrainian: бронхі́т (uk) m (bronxít)
- Vietnamese: viêm phế quản (炎肺管)
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