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bronchial Definition

bron·chial (-kē əl)

adjective

of or pertaining to the bronchi or bronchioles

bronchial Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • hyperresponsiveness: At 11 and 22 years, bronchial hyperresponsiveness was also measured.
  • hyper-responsiveness: Bronchial hyper-responsiveness may be a component of acute chest syndrome in people with sickle cell disease.
  • epithelium: In asthma, the bronchial epithelium is often damaged, with shedding of the columnar cells into the airway lumen.
  • mucosa: Lung toxins Some of the toxins present in smoke are highly irritant or directly toxic to the bronchial mucosa causing airway inflammation.
  • asthma: Thanks for your interest to a problem of a bronchial asthma.
  • pneumonia: He retired to his Florida estate, where he died of bronchial pneumonia & a stroke on January 25, 1947.