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Bronchial

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or relating to the bronchi, the bronchia, or the bronchioles.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of or relating to the bronchi or bronchioles.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Belonging to the bronchi or the bronchia.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. relating to or associated with the bronchi

Word Usage

"Its posterior part (the so-called saccular lung) has unique thick, muscular walls* that allows stored air to be forced forward into the functional anterior part (termed the bronchial lung) and the anterior projection of the lung (the so-called tracheal lung) is large and extends well forwards relative to that of terrestrial snakes."

Cross Reference

bronchial veins bronchial tubes bronchial glands bronchial membrane bronchial hemorrhage bronchial arteries

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