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Definition of Bronchiole

Bronchiole
Bronchiole Bron"chi*ole, n. (Anat.) A minute bronchial tube.

Meaning of Bronchiole from wikipedia

- The bronchioles or bronchioli (pronounced bron-kee-oh-lee) are the smaller branches of the bronchial airways in the lower respiratory tract. They include...
- tertiary (segmental) bronchi, that branch into smaller airways called bronchioles that eventually connect with tiny specialized structures called alveoli...
- bronchi and bronchioles, and which receive air breathed in via the conducting zone. The conducting zone ends at the terminal bronchioles. These divide...
- located in the respiratory bronchioles that mark the beginning of the respiratory zone. They are located sp****ly in these bronchioles, line the walls of the...
- lesions are 2–4 cm in diameter, grey-yellow, dry, often centered on a bronchiole, poorly delimited, and with the tendency to confluence, especially in...
- into numerous smaller tubes, the bronchioles. In birds, the bronchioles are termed parabronchi. It is the bronchioles, or parabronchi that generally open...
- risk. Outside of this context, atelectasis implies some blockage of a bronchiole or bronchus, which can be within the airway (foreign body, mucus plug)...
- the lumen of the bronchiole by mucoid exudate, goblet cell metaplasia, epithelial ba****t membrane thickening and severe inflammation of bronchiole....
- (conducting zone) conducting bronchiole (conducting zone) terminal bronchiole (conducting zone) respiratory bronchiole (transitional respiratory zone)...
- bronchi, when too narrow to be supported by cartilage, are known as bronchioles. No gas exchange takes place in the bronchi. The trachea (windpipe) divides...