Definition of Bronchia

1. n. pl. The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi.

Definition of Bronchia

1. Noun. (anatomy) The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, especially the subdivision of the bronchi. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bronchia

1. bronchium [n] - See also: bronchium

Medical Definition of Bronchia

1. The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, especially. The subdivision of the bronchi. Origin: L, pl. Cf. Bronchus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bronchia

brompicrin
brompton stock
bromsulfophthalein
bromsulphalein test
bromthymol blue
bromuret
bromurets
bromyl
bromyls
bromyrite
bronc
broncatar
bronch-
bronchi
bronchi lobares
bronchia (current term)
bronchial
bronchial adenoma
bronchial anatomy
bronchial arteries
bronchial artery
bronchial asthma
bronchial atresia
bronchial breathing
bronchial bud
bronchial calculus
bronchial fistula
bronchial fremitus
bronchial glands
bronchial hyperreactivity

Literary usage of Bronchia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"The bronchia, or divisions of the right and left bronchus respectively, dividing dichotomously, and running between the lobules as interlobular bronchia, ..."

2. Diseases of the dog and their treatment by Georg Alfred Müller, Alexander Glass (1911)
"In old cases of chronic bronchitis, there may be some stenosis of the tubes, and also, from the constant irritation of the bronchia, emphysema of the lungs. ..."

3. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1855)
"This designation has been restricted by some writers, without any very obvious propriety, to the higher grades of inflammation of the bronchia. ..."

4. The American Medical Intelligencer by Robley Dunglison (1842)
"On the entrance of the bronchia into the parenchyma of the lung, they have no longer cartilaginous rings, but merely thin irregular plates of cartilage ..."

5. A Complete pronouncing medical dictionary: Embracing the Terminology of by Joseph Thomas (1885)
"The French term for bronchia, which see. Bronchi,* bronk'I (the plural of Bronch'usj. ... In the plural, bronchi is used synonymously with bronchia. ..."

6. Human Physiology by Robley Dunglison (1846)
"Trunk of right pulmonary Scribes the vesi- The distribution of the bronchia and of the arteries and veins, as cles as of a ..."

7. Manual of Human Histology by Albert Kölliker, George Busk, Thomas Henry Huxley (1854)
"The intimate structure of the bronchia and air-cells is as follows. The bronchia are in general constituted in the same way as the air-tubes and their ..."

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