Biology
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1 Tobacco smoke contains tar, carbon monoxide and nicotine. 2 Tar settles on the epithelium lining the bronchi and bronchioles and stimulates inflammation, an increase in the secretion of mucus and an accumulation of phagocytes...
- Pneumothorax
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- Pneumonia
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- About Asthma, Pride And Unreasonable Men
Asthma is a chronic and quite frequent disease of the respiratory system, characterized by an irregular and reversible constriction of the bronchi called bronchospasm. Bronchospasm leads to a blocking of the airways. For this reason, the main symptoms...
Biology
asthma
Term : asthma
Origin: Anc Greek =?????/asthma (=difficulties in breathing, anhelation)
> ????/aazo(=exhale with open mouth, pass away)
> / ?F?? > ??? /aio (= blow)
Coined : The word appeared for the first time in the epic poem Iliad, with the meaning of a short-drawn breath describing the siege of Troy, but the earliest text where the word is found as a medical term is the Corpus Hippocraticum(460-360 B.C.). The best clinical description of asthma in later antiquity is offered by the Greek physicians Aretaeus of Cappadocia (1st century A.D.) and Galen (130-200 A.D.). Moses Maimonides (1135-1204 AD), wrote Treatise of Asthma for Prince Al-Afdal, revealing that his patient's symptoms often started as a common cold during the wet months. Eventually the patient gasped for air and coughed until phlegm was expelled. Physician and chemist Jean Baptiste Van Helmont (1579-1644 AD said for first time that the disease starts from lung?s pipes. At the beginning of the 20th century asthma was seen as a psychosomatic disease. Asthma, as an inflammatory disease, was not really recognized until the 1960s when anti-inflammatory medications started being used.
Definition:
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the smaller airways (bronchioles) of the lungs. From time to time the airways constrict (narrow) in people who have asthma. The typical symptoms of ththe disease are wheeze, cough, chest tightness, and shortness of breath.
http://www.patient.co.uk/health/Asthma.htm
Source:
Marketos SG., Ballas CN. Bronchial asthma in the medical literature of Greek antiquity. J Asthma. 1982;19(4):263-9.
- #53 Summary Of Smoking
1 Tobacco smoke contains tar, carbon monoxide and nicotine. 2 Tar settles on the epithelium lining the bronchi and bronchioles and stimulates inflammation, an increase in the secretion of mucus and an accumulation of phagocytes...
- Pneumothorax
Term: pneumothoraxOrigin: Anc Greek ???????/pneumon(=lung) >????/pneo(=blow) + ?????/thorax(=thorax) Coined:Spontaneous pneumothorax has long been associated with pulmonary tuberculosis and was coined in 1803, by Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, (1774-1838)...
- Pneumonia
Term: pneumonia Origin: Anc Greek ???????/pneumon(=lung) >????/pneo(=blow) à lung disease Coined : Hippocrates (460 BC- 370 BC) was the first physician to accurately described the symptoms of pneumonia although he mentioned that...
- Coeliac Disease
Term : coeliac (disease) Origin: Ancient Greek coelia> kilia(=belly) Coined: by Aretaeus of Cappadocia (2th cen AD) as kiliakos. Later Samuel Jones Gee (1839 ? 3 1911) an English physician in 1888, published the first complete modern description...
- About Asthma, Pride And Unreasonable Men
Asthma is a chronic and quite frequent disease of the respiratory system, characterized by an irregular and reversible constriction of the bronchi called bronchospasm. Bronchospasm leads to a blocking of the airways. For this reason, the main symptoms...