bronchial tube

American  

noun

1. a bronchus or any of its ramifications or branches.

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bronchial tube Scientific  

/ brŏng′kē-əl /

1. A bronchus or any of the tubes branching from a bronchus. The bronchial tubes decrease in size as they descend into the lungs.

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Etymology

Origin of bronchial tube

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

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bronchial tube

Kaiba’s parents quickly rushed him to the hospital where they learned that his left bronchial tube had collapsed because of a previously undetected birth defect.

From Scientific American ● May 24, 2013

There Dr. Samuel Iglauer of Cincinnati told about a rare case of collapse of a lung caused by a blood clot plugging a bronchial tube.

From Time Magazine Archive

"It's as if there were a cork in the bronchial tube," explains Dr. William Busse of the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

From Time Magazine Archive

A little bronchial tube terminates in every one of these lobules.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

Every winter I have been laid up, with the doctor listening at my bronchial tube and taking my temperature night and morning.

From The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story by Brazil, Angela