dilation of bronchioles?!


Question: Dilation of bronchioles?
is dilation a good thing? what causes the bronchioles of the lungs to dilate? can stress cause them to dilate?

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It depends partly on the context of your question. Dilation simply means opening, being less constricted. For a person with asthma it is a good thing - they would want the bronchioles to dilate to make breathing easier.

http://hsc.uwe.ac.uk/rcp/rs-rt-bronchiol…

Chronic dilation could be a sign of some inflammatory disease.

http://www.e-radiography.net/radpath/b/b…




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