bronchi

Example Sentences

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“Forest of Us” begins with a film of almost three minutes, in which Devlin depicts branching — bronchi in the lungs, limbs of trees, rivulets into streams.

From New York Times

In a recent article in the medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine, Weissman and others wrote that when each breath is inhaled, air first fills the upper airway, trachea and bronchi, where speech is generated.

From Washington Times

About ten sextillion molecules of atmosphere are now squeezing their way through the intricate tree of bronchi and bronchioles forming your lungs.

From Scientific American

Bronchial thermoplasty tackles this by reducing this muscle mass, thus decreasing the constriction of the bronchi that can take place during an asthma attack.

From BBC

Mustard creates what he calls a "unique pathology": peribronchial fibrosis—a thickening in tissues surrounding the bronchi—coupled with an airway obstruction called bronchiolitis obliterans.

From Science Magazine