See Also: exudative bronchiolitis(medicine)
Bronchiolitis(medicine)
Bronchiolitis(health)
proliferative bronchiolitis(medicine)
bronchiolitis, viral(medicine)
bronchiolitis obliterans(medicine)
constrictive bronchiolitis(medicine)
bronchiolitis fibrosa obliterans(medicine)
bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia(medicine)
bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia(medicine)

sunset (iou) and exudative bronchiolitis (medicine)


sunset (iou)



sunset noun & verb. LME.
[App. from SUN noun1 + SET noun1, but perh. partly (like SUNRISE) from a subjunct. clause such as before the sun set.]
A. noun.
The setting of the sun at the end of the day; the time of this; the coloured or illuminated sky associated with sunset; the direction of sunset, the west. LME.
go off into the sunset, ride off into the sunset, sail off into the sunset [from a conventional closing scene of many films] (freq. iron.) achieve a happy ending.
H. B. Stowe One of those intensely golden sunsets which kindles the..horizon into one blaze of glory.
fig. The end or declining period of a time of prosperity, a person's life, etc. E17.
J. R. Illingworth The gloom that darkens, or the hope that glorifies the sunset of our days.
Comb.: sunset Home (chiefly US) an old people's Home; sunset industry an old and declining (esp. heavy) industry; sunset law, sunset legislation N. Amer. Politics: whereby a government agency or programme is automatically terminated at the end of a fixed period unless formally renewed; sunset shell a burrowing bivalve mollusc of the genus Gari, with a long oval shell which (in some kinds) is pinkish with ray-like markings.
b. verb. Infl. -tt-.
verb intrans. Decline, sink. rare. M20.
verb trans. N. Amer. Politics. Subject to or terminate by means of sunset legislation. L20.
sunsetting noun (arch.) = SUNSET noun 1 LME.
sunsetty adjective suggestive of sunset M19.

exudative bronchiolitis (medicine)


exudative bronchiolitis
Inflammation of the bronchioles, with fibrinous exudation.