bronchial tube
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- noun
- /ˈbrɒŋkiəl tuːb/
- Specialized
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tubo bronquial
- Inhaling smoke is universally uniformly irritating to the lining of your nose, your sinuses, your throat, your bronchial tubes, and your lungs.
Inhaling smoke is universally uniformly irritating to the lining of your nose, your sinuses, your throat, your bronchial tubes, and your lungs.
- Inhaling smoke is universally uniformly irritating to the lining of your nose, your sinuses, your throat, your bronchial tubes, and your lungs.
Examples
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When the bronchial tubes become inflamed, it can result in coughing and wheezing.
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If wheezing and shortness of breath accompany rhinitis, it is likely that the bronchial tubes have also been affected. It might be reasonable, therefore, to think of allergic rhinitis and asthma as parts of the same condition.
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lt's to soothe his bronchial tubes.
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Anyhoo, before Garraka could collapse the collective bronchial tubes of greater South Asia, he finally met his match.
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Albuterol is a beta-2 agonist, so it will keep the bronchial tubes.
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Like the poster just below me right now, I take Singulair and use an Albuterol inhaler as needed, but I always take 1 puff before I go cycling or any other highly aerobic activity because the medicine keeps the bronchial tubes from closing off and turning a ride into an actual emergency.
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Asthma is a chronic disease that affects the bronchial tube, leading to difficulty in breathing.
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A doctor examined the patient's bronchial tube to check for signs of infection.
Synonyms
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A passage in the body that carries air to and from the lungs
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Parts of the body, like the nose and throat, that carry air to and from the lungs
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One of the two main tubes that carry air between the windpipe and a lung
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward compound of 'bronchial' (relating to the air passages in the lungs) and 'tube' (a hollow cylinder), so a learner who knows both constituents can readily infer it denotes a tube in the respiratory system that carries air. This is a compositional, domain-specific term found across languages, making its meaning predictable rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
Bronchial tube is a simple picture: bronchial comes from an old word for the 'windpipe' and tube means a small pipe, so together they name the small pipes that carry air into the lungs. That's why the term refers to the narrow air passages that lead into each lung.