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When you breathe, the air moves from you mouth, down the trachea, then there is a fork called the Bronchi where air either goes into the right or left lung. This tube, the Bronchi, is what gets infected. The suffix -itis means inflammation, and Bronchitis is the inflammation of the Bronchi, hence the name!

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