Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The bronchial tubes. See
bronchial .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Anat.) The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi.
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- noun anatomy The
bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of thetrachea , especially thesubdivision of thebronchi .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He analyzed the noise on telephone lines, the branching of bronchia in the lungs, the shape of coastlines and clouds, the distribution of word frequencies in literature and of stars and galaxies in the universe.
Farewell to a Creative Agitator Richard Hudson 2010
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If fumes or fuliginous vapours and air permeate this vessel, as they do the pulmonary bronchia, wherefore do we find neither air nor fuliginous vapours when we divide the pulmonary vein?
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Glandulae pituitariae turgentes bronchia comprimunt.
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Its nose had been replaced with another spike, the task of breathing being accomplished through a series of holes bored through the creature's sternum and directly into its bronchia.
Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999
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After they had died, any part of their carcasses would register on a photographic plate and tissue from the apices of their lungs and from the bronchia glowed with a light of its own.
The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein Heinlein, Robert A. 1966
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The same causes which produce inflammation of the lungs, of the bronchia, and of the other respiratory organs, produce also pleurisy.
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BRONCHIECTASIS (Gr. [Greek: bronchia], bronchial tubes, and [Greek: ektasis], extension), dilatation of the bronchi, a condition occurring in connexion with many diseases of the lungs.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Among the more serious and dangerous forms of acute disease of this class which, lacking proper treatment, develop into chronic forms, are the catarrhal affections of the lungs and bronchia, = grippe =,
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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Also the bronchia, lungs, pleura and pericardium become affected, as sneezing, cough (the so-called scarlet-cough) and the pain across the chest and in the region of the heart indicate.
Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Charles Munde
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The trachea and the bronchia are slightly red, and the right side of the head is gorged with blood.
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