Crossword clues for bronchiole
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bronchiole \Bron"chi*ole\, n. (Anat.) A minute bronchial tube.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Modern Latin, from diminutive of bronchia "the bronchial tubes" (plural; see bronchial).
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) Any of the small branches of a bronchus.
WordNet
n. any of the smallest bronchial ducts; ending in alveoli
Wikipedia
The bronchioles or bronchioli are the passageways by which air passes through the nose or mouth to the alveoli (air sacs) of the lungs, in which branches no longer contain cartilage or glands in their submucosa. They are branches of the bronchi, and are part of the conducting zone of the respiratory system. The bronchioles divide further into smaller terminal bronchioles which are still in the conducting zone and these then divide into the smaller respiratory bronchioles which mark the beginning of the respiratory region.
Usage examples of "bronchiole".
It could involve violent constriction of the bronchioles, heart failure, collapse of the circulatory system, death.
She stopped and looked in a side chapel where bronchioles narrowed to alveoli.
Then as the destruction of the bronchioles and alveoli of the lungs went on he retched and suffocated and coughed up blood and tissue.
The bronchial branches become many narrow bronchioles that end in ducts opening into the alveoli.
For instance, when a human gets an asthma attack, his bronchioles close up.
The image of my heart compressing to the flatness of a plate, my lungs exhaling first air, then blood, then bronchioles, alveoli snapping, my colon popping like a pea, such images tended to wipe out all thoughts of the hereafter with obsessions of the dangers in the here and now.
She stopped and looked in a side chapel where bronchioles narrowed to alveoli.
Some of our people sometimes go slumming in the quaint little bronchioles over that way, but they run the risk of having some unsavory character jump out of a dark alveolus at them.
One night we got a floater off Key Biscayne, had a baby queen angelfish in his bronchioles!