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bronchi

/brong-kee, -kahy/US // ˈbrɒŋ ki, -kaɪ //UK // (ˈbrɒŋkaɪ) //

支气管,气管,支脉,支管

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Anatomy.

    • : the plural of bronchus.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Fibrinous casts are characteristic of fibrinous bronchitis, but may also be found in diphtheria of the smaller bronchi.

  • This cartilaginous tube, the top of which may easily be felt as the Adam's apple of the throat, divides into two bronchi.

  • Again, the air-tubes or tracheæ of insects are, like the trachea and bronchi of many Vertebrates, air-breathing organs.

  • The trachea showed a similar irritated condition with that of the bronchi.

  • Neither expectorated black matter, and both died from the bursting of a carbonaceous cyst into the bronchi, producing suffocation.