Word Meanings - BRONCHIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi. Dunglison.
Related words: (words related to BRONCHIA)
- TRACHEA
The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung. - BRANCHIOSTOMA
The lancelet. See Amphioxus. - BRANCHLESS
Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked. - BRONCHI
See BRONCHUS - BRANCHING
Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton. - BRANCHIOPODA
An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It - BRANCHINESS
Fullness of branches. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - BRONCHITIC
Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation. - TRACHEARY
Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheæ. -- n. - BRANCHY
Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott. - 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 - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - BRONCHIOLE
A minute bronchial tube. - BRANCH
1. To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in. 2. To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs. The train whereof loose far behind her strayed, Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought. Spenser. - TRACHEATE
Any arthropod having tracheæ; one of the Tracheata. - BRANCHIOGASTROPODA
Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata. - BRANCHLET
A little branch; a twig. - BRANCHIOSTEGOUS
Branchiostegal. - BRANCHIOSTEGE
The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix. - TECTIBRANCHIA
See TECTIBRANCHIATA - SUBBRONCHIAL
Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds. - NUDIBRANCHIATA
A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia. - ABRANCHIAL
Abranchiate. - PYGOBRANCHIA
A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris. - PODOBRANCH
One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea. - ASPIDOBRANCHIA
A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets. - LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n. - EPIBRANCHIAL
Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n. - HYPOBRANCHIAL
Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n. - PULMOBRANCHIATA; PULMOBRANCHIATE
See -ATE (more info) & n. - PERENNIBRANCHIATE
Having branchæ, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate. - TECTIBRANCHIATE
Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata. -- n. - SCYPHOBRANCHII
An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families. - DERMOBRANCHIATE
Having the skin modified to serve as a gill. - CIRROBRANCHIATA
A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda. - INFEROBRANCHIATA
A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.