Beginning with the organs of respiration, it highlights the structure and function of the nose, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs, including an in-depth look at healthy and diseased lung function.

She also suffered from kidney disorders, and the connective tissue of her trachea and larynx was too soft and ... a scaffolding to support the baby's bronchial tubes and windpipe.

Researchers at Imperial College London teamed up with colleagues at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Carolina to find out how breathing dry air affects the mucous surfaces of human ...

Wyn Drabble is a teacher of English, writer, public speaker and musician. He is based in Hawke’s Bay. The medical profession sent me a neatly-typed letter. It informed me that my CT scan “has ...

With the needle in the trachea and directed caudad ... In the first patient, however, bronchial cultures at autopsy yielded alpha-hemolytic streptococci and tellurite-positive staphylococci ...

Asthma involves inflammation of the bronchial tubes (airways), which can ... It connects your throat to your windpipe. Your larynx houses your vocal cords (or vocal folds), which create sound ...

Sometimes asthma comes in a form called cough variant asthma, which doesn’t have typical asthma symptoms. You can treat it the same way as other forms of asthma, but if it persists longer than ...

Medications aren’t the only way to control asthma. Your doctor might also try a condition called bronchial thermoplasty. People with asthma often have extra smooth muscle in their airway walls.

The ETT combination with HEPA filter in advance can potentially reduce aerosolisation of the viral droplets from the larynx and trachea during intubation, and the ventilator can then be connected ...