Word: bronchial
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...windpipe when we are eating. After the windpipe has gone down into the chest it divides into two parts, and goes to the right and left sides. Each of these enters the lung on its own side, and then splits up into a number of smaller branches. The smallest bronchial tubes at last end in little sacs which are air cells. The walls between them are very thin, and in these walls are the capillary vessels into which the artery bringing the blood from the right side of the heart breaks up. So the blood flowing through them is exposed...
...Garibaldi is suffering from a bronchial attack...