Editing Bronchiectasis (section)

==History==
[[René Laennec]], the man who invented the [[stethoscope]], used his invention to first discover bronchiectasis in 1819.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Roguin, A |title=Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laënnec (1781–1826): The Man Behind the Stethoscope |journal=Clin Med Res|volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=230–35 |year=2006 |doi=10.3121/cmr.4.3.230 |pmc=1570491 |pmid=17048358}}</ref>

The disease was researched in greater detail by Sir [[William Osler]], one of the four founding professors of [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]], in the late 1800s. It is suspected that Osler himself died of complications from undiagnosed bronchiectasis. His biographies mention that he had frequent severe chest infections for many years.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Wrong O |title=Osler and my father |journal=J R Soc Med |volume=96 |issue=6 |pages=462–64 |year=2003 |pmid= 12949207|doi=10.1177/014107680309600914 |pmc=539606}}</ref>

The term "bronchiectasis" comes from the Greek words ''bronkhia'' (meaning "airway") and ''ektasis (''meaning "widening").<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/bronchiectasis|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109175656/https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/bronchiectasis|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 9, 2019|title=Bronchiectasis {{!}} Definition of Bronchiectasis by Lexico|website=Lexico Dictionaries {{!}} English|access-date=2019-11-21}}</ref>