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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.

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  • 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.
  • BRANCHIOSTEGOUS
    Branchiostegal.
  • BRANCHLET
    A little branch; a twig.
  • 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.

 

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