An illness where the tubes in your lungs become inflamed and irritated, causing a persistent cough.
From Greek 'bronchos' (windpipe) combined with medical suffix '-itis' (inflammation). The term precisely describes inflammation of the bronchial tubes.
The '-itis' suffix appears in hundreds of medical terms—bronchitis, appendicitis, meningitis—making it one of medicine's most useful building blocks for naming inflammation conditions!
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