BRONCHOCONSTRICTION

Specialty Definition: BRONCHOCONSTRICTION

Domain	Definition
Health	Diminution of the caliber of a bronchus physiologically or as a result of pharmacological intervention. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BRONCHOCONSTRICTION

Specialty definitions using "BRONCHOCONSTRICTION": Platelet Activating Factor. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: BRONCHOCONSTRICTION

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The hallmarks of asthma are obstruction to air flow and bronchoconstriction, tightening of the muscles in the walls of the bronchi, that is usually relieved by drugs called bronchodilators. (references)
		Bronchodilators, for example, theophylline compounds, sympathomimetic agents (albuterol, metaproterenol, isoproterenol), anticholinergics (ipratropium bromide), and corticosteroids, reverse bronchoconstriction and reduce tissue inflammation. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BRONCHOCONSTRICTION

"BRONCHOCONSTRICTION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BRONCHOCONSTRICTION" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BRONCHOCONSTRICTION

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
bronchoconstriction	8
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Modern Translation: BRONCHOCONSTRICTION

Language		Translations for "BRONCHOCONSTRICTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		bronchokonstriktion, bronchiekonstriktion. (various references)

Dutch		bronchoconstrictie. (various references)

French		bronchoconstriction (f), bronchoconstriction. (various references)

German		Bronchokonstriktion. (various references)

Greek		βρογχοσυστολή. (various references)

Italian		broncocostrizione (bronchostenosis). (various references)

Pig Latin		onchoconstrictionbray

Portuguese		broncoconstricção, broncoconstrição. (various references)

Spanish		broncoconstricción. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.