Sentence examples for term asthma from inspiring English sources

The term "asthma," probably first used medically by Hippocrates, comes from the Greek for "panting".

A doctor commented that the term "asthma" was used because it was more familiar to patients.

The video questionnaire took about 7 min to administer, and the term "asthma" was not mentioned during this time.

We chose six attributes highlighted by patients as being the most important considerations in their long term asthma management.

How very long - chronic, obstructive…because the word used is not a layman term, asthma is very easy for them".

The majority of participants of the European Respiratory Society task force [ 4] abstained from using the term asthma to describe preschool wheezing illness.

Last year, Dr. Gaynor received a one-year grant from the Environmental Protection Agency and a three-year grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to develop a program to alleviate Harlem's high asthma rates and to provide long-term asthma management.

Furthermore, one of the common problems in long-term asthma care is poor adherence to inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) maintenance therapy, resulting in under-treatment of the underlying airway inflammation.

We used the UMLS::Similarity web interface with the MeSH taxonomy to obtain the pair-wise similarity of the set of terms asthma, cough, influenza, tibial fracture and ulna fracture.

Diabetes meters (now in designer colors, wow!), cholesterol lowering drugs, anti-depressants (that can increase your thoughts of suicide...isn't that a contradiction in terms?), asthma treatments, 'alli' for obesity, erectile dysfunction drugs (lots and lots of them), all with their breathy little disclaimers for side effects that are nearly as scary as the ailment they are treating.

For the current study we searched for the terms "asthma" and "association" and "SNP" or "polymorphism" or "genetic", retrieving 1,341 abstracts.