bronchial
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of bronchial
First recorded in 1725–35; bronchi(a) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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Perhaps the most grotesque episode features the boys salvaging their grandmother’s hot tub, promising Dad they’ll keep it clean and then contracting some kind of gruesome, racking bronchial affliction that coughs up another moral.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
“I’d hoped to power through the Phoenix show but I had a bronchial infection and a last-minute adverse reaction to medication,” Hackett wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
The microscopic particles can penetrate deeply into the lungs and then move further into the body, causing both short-term bronchial problems and serious long-term health issues.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
The 57-year-old from Llandysul, Ceredigion, has received an MBE for services to charity and innovation after buying a single goat in an attempt to help her young son's persistent bronchial difficulties with its milk.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2023
At the end of the fifth test, the subject was sent home to New York with three or four aspirins in an engraved envelope for his sniffles, which turned out to be bronchial pneumonia.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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