bronchial tubes
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Machines valiantly take over for faltering kidneys, heart valves, bronchial tubes.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025
Yes, Browne had written more than a decade ago that “in around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2020
The bronchial tubes get rid of most of such debris with almost no harm to the body. 24,000,000 Meteors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Acute attacks of asthma occur when the bronchial tubes of the lungs become partly blocked.
From Time Magazine Archive
When, on a day after a trip to collect coal, I cough once, loudly, through bronchial tubes already packed tight with phlegm, my mother frowns.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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