Again, you might want to look up mucus plugging or for european studies, look up mucous plugging. You might want to look up bronchiectasis found in asthma.
Bronchiectasis; bronchi or bronchioles marked by dilation or loss of elasticity of the walls.
Mucus plugging; found when mucus/mucins are hyper-secreted during exacerbation or not properly cleared, block the peripheral lower airways as in the alveoli where oxygen is exchanged into the bloodstream.
