ASTHMA
\ˈasmə], \ˈasmə], \ˈa_s_m_ə]\
Definitions of ASTHMA
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A form of bronchial disorder associated with airway obstruction, marked by recurrent attacks of paroxysmal dyspnea, with wheezing due to spasmodic contraction of the bronchi.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Difficulty of breathing, recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound and sense of constriction in the chest; cough and expectoration. Asthma is a chronic disease, and not curable with facility. Excitant and narcotic antispasmodics are required. There are no pathognomonic physical signs of asthma. In some cases, the respiration is universally puerile during the attack. In the spasmodic form, the respiratory murmur is very feeble or absent during the fit; and in all forms percussion elicits a clear pulmonary sound. The disease generally consists in some source of irritation, and occasionally, perhaps, in paralysis of the pneumogastric nerves, Bronchoparalysis, Paralysis nervi vagi in parte thoracica, more frequently of the former- all the phenomena indicating constriction of the smaller bronchial ramifications. The treatment is one that relieves spasmodic action- narcotics, counter-irritants, change of air, &c.
By Robley Dunglison
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Intermittent dyspnea, with wheezing, cough, and sense of constriction.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A disease syndrome characterized by recurring attacks of excessive dyspnea caused by spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm and by some change in the smaller bronchial tubes.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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