bronchi

[ brong-kee, -kahy ]
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nounAnatomy.
  1. the plural of bronchus.

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How to use bronchi in a sentence

  • Fibrinous casts are characteristic of fibrinous bronchitis, but may also be found in diphtheria of the smaller bronchi.

    A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Todd
  • This cartilaginous tube, the top of which may easily be felt as the Adam's apple of the throat, divides into two bronchi.

    A Civic Biology | George William Hunter
  • Again, the air-tubes or tracheæ of insects are, like the trachea and bronchi of many Vertebrates, air-breathing organs.

    Form and Function | E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
  • The trachea showed a similar irritated condition with that of the bronchi.

  • Neither expectorated black matter, and both died from the bursting of a carbonaceous cyst into the bronchi, producing suffocation.

British Dictionary definitions for bronchi

bronchi

/ (ˈbrɒŋkaɪ) /


noun
  1. the plural of bronchus

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