Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lying below the artery, as a bronchial tube.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Situated below an artery; applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off below the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Situated below an
artery ; applied especially to the branches of thebronchi given off below the point where thepulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The bronchus now passes below the artery, and is known as the hyparterial branch; it divides into two branches for the middle and lower lobes.
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All the other divisions of the main stem come off below the pulmonary artery, and consequently are termed hyparterial bronchi.
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The left bronchus passes below the level of the pulmonary artery before it divides, and hence all its branches are hyparterial; it may therefore be looked upon as equivalent to that portion of the right bronchus which lies on the distal side of its eparterial branch.
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On the right side their position iseparterial bronchus, pulmonary artery, hyparterial bronchus, pulmonary veins, but on the left side their position ispulmonary artery, bronchus, pulmonary veins.
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