bronchus
Americannoun
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bronchi
plural
noun
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bronchi
plural
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of bronchus
1700–10; < New Latin < Greek brónchos windpipe
Vocabulary lists containing bronchus
Human Anatomy and Physiology - High School
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In the United States and the United Kingdom, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among men, behind lung and bronchus cancer.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
Kentucky has the highest incidence rates for lung and bronchus and cervical cancers, while ranking second for colon and rectal cancers, it said.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
Researchers from the University of Hong Kong reported that compared with Delta, Omicron “infects and multiplies 70 times faster” in the bronchus, the main airways into the lungs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
“Whilst the other strains take off after about 72 hours in the bronchus, this one goes up within 24 hours,” says John Nicholls, a pathologist at the University of Hong Kong.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2021
Annular Edema.—Such objects as marbles, pebbles, corks, etc., are drawn deeply and with force by the inspiratory blast into the smallest bronchus they can enter.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
However, it rarely affects the bronchi and alveoli in the lungs.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2023
In severe asthma, the bronchi become chronically inflamed and constricted.
From Scientific American ● May 4, 2023
R.S.V. predominantly affects the small airways, called bronchioles, that branch off from bronchi in the lungs.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
These cilia beat in unison and move mucus and particles out of the bronchi and bronchioles back up to the throat where it is swallowed and eliminated via the esophagus.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Dolan believes the phenomena of the cough or kinks to be due, as suggested by Laennec, to a "spasmodic condition of the muscular or contractile fibres of the bronchi and their branches."
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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