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

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

Occasionally a branch of a bronchial tube becomes plugged up with secretion, so that the area of the lung to which this branch conducts ceases to be inflated on inspiration.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various