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Word Meanings - BRONCHUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.

Related words: (words related to BRONCHUS)

  • TRACHEA
    The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
  • TRACHEARY
    Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheæ. -- n.
  • TRACHEATE
    Breathing by means of tracheæ; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.
  • WINDPIPE
    The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
  • TRACHEARIA
    A division of Arachnida including those that breathe only by means of tracheæ. It includes the mites, ticks, false scorpions, and harvestmen.
  • TRACHEATA
    An extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheæ, as distinguished from Crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiæ.
  • PRIMARY
    Earliest formed; fundamental. (more info) 1. First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original. The church of Christ, in its primary institution. Bp. Pearson. These I call original, or primary, qualities of
  • TRACHEAL
    Of or pertaining to the trachea; like a trachea.
  • LARYNGOTRACHEAL
    Pertaining to both larynx and trachea; as, the laryngotracheal cartilage in the frog.
  • DIRECT PRIMARY
    A primary by which direct nominations of candidates for office are made.
  • PERITRACHEAL
    Surrounding the tracheæ.
  • PROTOTRACHEATA
    See MALACOPODA
  • PROTRACHEATA
    See MALACOPODA

 

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