Word Meanings - BRONCHIOLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A minute bronchial tube.

Related words: (words related to BRONCHIOLE)

• BRONCHIAL
  Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs. Bronchial arteries, branches of the descending aorta, accompanying the bronchia in all their ramifications. -- Bronchial cells, the air cells terminating the bronchia. -- Bronchial
• MINUTE
  1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as,
• MINUTEMAN
  A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
• MINUTE-JACK
  1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house. 2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak.
• MINUTENESS
  The quality of being minute.
• MINUTELY
  In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
• SUBBRONCHIAL
  Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
  The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.
• DIMINUTE
  Small; diminished; diminutive. Jer. Taylor.
• PREBRONCHIAL
  Situated in front of the bronchus; -- applied especially to an air sac on either side of the esophagus of birds.
• DIMINUTELY
  Diminutively.
• TRACHEOBRONCHIAL
  Pertaining both to the tracheal and bronchial tubes, or to their junction; -- said of the syrinx of certain birds.