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bronchial

[ brong-kee-uhl ]

adjective

, Anatomy.
  1. pertaining to the bronchia or bronchi.


bronchial

/ ˈbrɒŋkɪəl /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the bronchi or the bronchial tubes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈbronchially, adverb
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Other Words From

  • bronchi·al·ly adverb
  • inter·bronchi·al adjective
  • post·bronchi·al adjective
  • pre·bronchi·al adjective
  • sub·bronchi·al adjective
  • sub·bronchi·al·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bronchial1

First recorded in 1725–35; bronchi(a) + -al 1
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Example Sentences

After six weeks of daily practice, bronchial hyper-reactiveness also seemed to improve, that study found.

From Time

If the virus is growing well in bronchial cells, symptoms like coughing could release a lot of viruses into the air.

Days later, with a fever joining his other symptoms, they took Moxxon to an urgent-care clinic, where an X-ray detected bronchial pneumonia.

RSV is the most common cause of bronchial infections and pneumonia in children under age 1, with a season that typically runs roughly from November to early spring.

When the quantity is very small there may be no cough, the sputum reaching the larynx by action of the bronchial cilia.

True bronchial asthma commonly gives a marked eosinophilia during and following the paroxysms.

For some three years back I have labored under a disease of the throat—a bronchial affection—a severe affliction it was.

Similar cells are found in some part of most of the internal organs, including the bronchial tubes.

A view of the lower part of the trachea, dividing into the main bronchial tubes, which again branch into a tree-like form.

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