Meanings of small airways in English

Inflammatory cells are distributed in both large and small airways in asthma.

Diseases affecting the small airways are difficult to detect by traditional diagnostic tests.

The cellular composition of these two regions is different, and small airways lack submucosal glands.

In addition, CF small airway epithelia had a higher ASL viscosity than non-CF small airways.

Air trapping is an indirect sign of obstruction in the small airways of the lung.

All of the pathogens were present in large airways, with 2 strains present in small airways concurrently.

Injury is usually accentuated around small airways.

Objectives: The prevalence and clinical implications of small airways involvement in SSc are still to be fully elucidated.

These data provide insight to explain why the small airways are a susceptible site for the bacterial colonization.

Samples were obtained from both large and small airways by protective specimen brush, and bacteria were cultured quantitatively.

This commentary highlights the particular importance of reducing smooth muscle constriction of human small airways in these obstructive diseases.

In SPIROMICS the signature was associated with increased airway obstruction and functional small airways disease on quantitative chest CT.

The data also suggested that this drug exerts its action on small airways, but not larger airways in normal subjects.

The U.S. firm's flagship product is the RePneu Coil for advanced emphysema, which tethers small airways open to prevent their collapse.

It may develop as a complication of repeated episodes of pulmonary infection resulting in bronchiolitis obliterans and obstruction of small airways.

The anatomy of the small airways is discussed, and a pathologic classification applicable to the surgical pathology of bronchiolitis is presented.