bronchi

[ brong-kee, -kahy ]

/ ˈbrɒŋ ki, -kaɪ /

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noun Anatomy.

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.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis|Archibald Makellar

Neither expectorated black matter, and both died from the bursting of a carbonaceous cyst into the bronchi, producing suffocation.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis|Archibald Makellar

British Dictionary definitions for bronchi

bronchi

/ (ˈbrɒŋkaɪ) /

noun

the plural of bronchus

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