Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the bronchi, the bronchia, or the bronchioles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging to the bronchi or the bronchia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs.
- adjective branches of the descending aorta, accompanying the bronchia in all their ramifications.
- adjective the air cells terminating the bronchia.
- adjective glands whose functions are unknown, seated along the bronchia.
- adjective the mucous membrane lining the bronchia.
- adjective the bronchi, or the bronchia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to the
bronchi orbronchioles .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or associated with the bronchi
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Examples
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On examining more minutely with the magnifier, open-mouthed bronchial twigs, and very small blood-vessels, were seen plugged up with solid and fluid carbon, and, from the appearance of the morbid structure, it was manifest, that the ulcerative process had effected a complete disorganization of the _bronchial_ tubes of every calibre, while the smaller _arterial_ vessels had alone suffered, leaving the larger ones entire. [
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The last time I kept up the cycling through the winter was the last time I was properly ill with a long-term bronchial cough that was hard to shift.
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Its posterior part (the so-called saccular lung) has unique thick, muscular walls* that allows stored air to be forced forward into the functional anterior part (termed the bronchial lung) and the anterior projection of the lung (the so-called tracheal lung) is large and extends well forwards relative to that of terrestrial snakes.
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Its posterior part (the so-called saccular lung) has unique thick, muscular walls* that allows stored air to be forced forward into the functional anterior part (termed the bronchial lung) and the anterior projection of the lung (the so-called tracheal lung) is large and extends well forwards relative to that of terrestrial snakes.
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JOHNSON: They've identified that they're predisposed to developing a certain kind of lung cancer called bronchial (ph) carcinoma, and that was reported late last year in 2005.
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Each branch enters the lung of its own side, and breaks up into a great number of smaller branches, called bronchial tubes.
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This condition as a disease may be called bronchial catarrh, as in most cases there is such a condition of the larger tubes as to cause the habitual raising of a discharge.
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This is known as the bronchial murmur and is heard in normal conditions near the lower part of the trachea and to a limited extent in the anterior portions of the lungs after sharp exercise.
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Around the bronchial tubes and their ramifications there are also arteries and veins called the bronchial, arising from the vena azygos or vena cava, and from the aorta.
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Asthmatx has developed the Alair System to perform an investigational outpatient procedure called bronchial thermoplasty.
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