Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
bronchus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Anat.) See
bronchus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
bronchus .
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Examples
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At the lower end the trachea divides into two branches, called the bronchi, each of which closely resembles it in structure.
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With every inhalation, air is sucked in through the windpipe or trachea, which terminates in two tubes called bronchi, one leading to the right lung, one to the left.
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When air is inhaled, it moves through tiers of progressively smaller branching airways called bronchi until dead-ending in the smallest, cul-de-sac-like chambers of the lungs, called alveoli.
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A flexible tube used to examine the inside of the bronchi (air tubes going into the lungs).
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Examination of the bronchi (main air tubes going into the lungs) using a rigid flexible tube (bronchosope) that has a tiny light and camera on the end.
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The examination of the bronchi (the main airways of the lungs) using a flexible tube (bronchoscope).
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An examination of the larynx (voice box) and bronchi (air tubes going into the lungs) using an endoscope.
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"Looking through the tube we can see the interior of the bronchi brilliantly lighted up," he wrote.
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The windpipe; a cartilage tube that sits between the larynx (voice box) and the bronchi (tubes that go into the lungs).
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Smaller tubes or airways branching off from the bronchi; the lungs have hundreds of thousands of bronchioles.
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