Med. [mod.L. f. bronchi, bronchia + -ITIS (= Gr. -ῖτις), q.v. First brought into use by P. Frank, Interpretationes Clinicæ (1812), I. 10, and Bodham, Inflammatory Affections of Bronchia (1814).] Inflammation of the bronchial mucous membrane.
1814. J. Burns, Princ. Midwifery (ed. 3), x. 565. Bronchitis is far from being an uncommon disease of infants.
1830. De Quincey, Ld. Carlisle on Pope, Wks. II. 25. He had no such ardour for Truth as would ever lead him to forget that wells were damp, and bronchitis alarming to a man of his constitution.
1881. Med. Temp. Jrnl., I. 18. He soon succumbed to an attack of acute bronchitis.
