BRONCHIOLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bronchiole mean? 

• BRONCHIOLE (noun)
  The noun BRONCHIOLE has 1 sense:

1. any of the smallest bronchial ducts; ending in alveoli

  Familiarity information: BRONCHIOLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRONCHIOLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the smallest bronchial ducts; ending in alveoli

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("bronchiole" is a kind of...):

canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)

Holonyms ("bronchiole" is a part of...):

lower respiratory tract (the bronchi and lungs)

Derivation:

bronchiolar (of or relating to or involving bronchioles)

 Context examples 

It is caused by the rupture of alveoli and terminal bronchioles.

(Interstitial Emphysema, NCI Thesaurus)

A rounded, club-shaped, nonciliated cell found in between ciliated cells in the epithelium of respiratory and terminal bronchioles.

(Clara Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

The cilia are part of the mucociliary system, which extends through the tracheobronchial tree and into the respiratory bronchioles.

(Ciliated Bronchial Epithelial Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

A bronchiole located in the left lung.

(Left Lung Bronchiole, NCI Thesaurus)

A respiratory bronchiole located in the left lung.

(Left Lung Respiratory Bronchiole, NCI Thesaurus)

A primary lobule consists of a terminal bronchiole, respiratory bronchioles, and alveolar ducts, which communicate with many alveoli, each alveolus being surrounded by a network of capillary blood vessels.

(Lung Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

It includes the lungs and the parts of the lungs such as the bronchioles and alveoli.

(Lower Respiratory System, NCI Thesaurus)

A terminal bronchiole located in the left lung.

(Left Lung Terminal Bronchiole, NCI Thesaurus)

The respiratory passage distal to the respiratory bronchiole.

(Alveolar Duct, NCI Thesaurus)

The epithelium of the bronchioles of the lung, which consists of cuboidal cells.

(Bronchiole Epithelium, NCI Thesaurus)