(archaic) bronchial

A bronchiole.

(anatomy) (combining form) relating to bronchi

The formation of bronchioles.

plural of bronchitic

With coughing and wheezing caused by bronchitis; (figuratively) with noises reminiscent of such coughing and wheezing.

A rare and irreversible form of obstructive lung disease in which the bronchioles are compressed and narrowed by fibrosis and/or inflammation.

Any of the downstream bronchioles that already engage in blood-air gas exchange, in contrast to the upstream conducting-zone bronchioles that merely transport air.

One of the smallest bronchioles that do not participate in the gas exchanges that happen in the lung.

(anatomy, usually in the plural) A bronchial tube; a subdivision of the bronchus.