bronchial asthma

What does bronchial asthma mean?

bronchial asthma means "respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing; usually of allergic origin".

What is another word for bronchial asthma?

Close synonyms include asthma, asthma attack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bronchial asthma a common word?

bronchial asthma is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bronchial asthma come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.