Bronchial–tubes


a bronchus or any of its ramifications or branches.
Historical Examples

The Bramleighs Of Bishop’s Folly Charles James Lever
The Pig Sanders Spencer
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Edward Hooker Dewey
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis Archibald Makellar
Mrs. Geoffrey Duchess
A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson
Memoranda on Poisons Thomas Hawkes Tanner
A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Various
Parasites T. Spencer Cobbold

plural noun
the bronchi or their smaller divisions
bronchial tube
(brŏng’kē-əl)
A bronchus or any of the tubes branching from a bronchus. The bronchial tubes decrease in size as they descend into the lungs.
bronchial tubes [(brong-kee-uhl)]

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