Recurrent airway obstruction, also known as broken wind, heaves, wind-broke horse, or sometimes by the term usually reserved for humans, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or disorder (COPD) – it is a respiratory disease or chronic condition of horses involving an allergic bronchitis characterised by wheezing, coughing and laboured breathing.
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In 1989, GEC and the German conglomerate Siemens made a hostile takeover of the Plessey Company through their joint holding company, GEC Siemens plc. While most of Plessey's assets were divided between the companies, GPT remained a joint venture with a 60/40 shareholding by GEC and Siemens respectively. In 1991, because Plessey no longer existed, GEC Plessey Telecommunications was renamed to just the initial letters GPT (or GPTel in France, since in French "GPT" sounds like "j'ai pété", "I have broken wind").
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Some of the rare cases operated by team of doctors under the leadership of Dr. Kumar are: # 21 years old NRI boy studying in New Zealand, had large tumor in left bronchus and was advised Pneumonectomy (removal of lung). He came to us and underwent successful removal of tumor with reimplantation of the Lung, thus saving his precious lung. # 23 years old boy with serious road traffic accident and complete transection of his wind pipe (trachea) was refused to be entertained by all major hospitals in Delhi. He was air-lifted to SGRH and in an extremely complex 8 hours operation, his broken wind pipe was rejoined successfully.
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Dust in hay consists of a collection of naturally occurring dust particles which include organic plant and soil particles and potentially allergenic mould, fungi, bacteria, mite faeces, endotoxins and beta glucans, all of which have the potential to contribute to the development of airway inflammation and equine asthma. This is due to the fact horses are highly sensitive to respirable dust in hay especially to the mould, fungal spores and bacteria fraction. Exposure to these particles, particularly prolonged exposure has been shown to cause respiratory disease in the horse including equine asthma also known as COPD, broken wind, heaves and recurrent airway obstruction (RAO). When Blumerich et al.
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Collections of Schlock Mercenary strips were originally published in book form by "The Tayler Corporation", and are now published through Hypernode Press. Tayler's wife, Sandra, is the publisher. The first published collection, Under New Management does not start at the beginning of the archive, but at the 1001st strip, when the strip was relaunched. The first 1,000 strips were published later in books 1 and 2. Released and announced book titles are as follows: # The Tub of Happiness (, December 2007) # The Teraport Wars (, October 2008) # Under New Management (, May 2006) # The Blackness Between (, November 2006) # The Scrapyard of Insufferable Arrogance (, June 2009) # Resident Mad Scientist (, July 2010) # Emperor Pius Dei (, July 2011) # The Sharp End of the Stick (, June 2012) # The Body Politic (, August 2013) # The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse (, June 2014) # Massively Parallel (, December 2014) # Force Multiplication (, August 2016) # Random Access Memorabilia (February 2018) # Broken Wind (April 2019) # Delegates and Delegation (April 2019) # Big, Dumb Objects The books were renumbered in 2007 to allow for the release of The Tub of Happiness and The Teraport Wars.
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