Word Meanings - ECTOBRONCHIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.

Related words: (words related to ECTOBRONCHIUM)

• BRONCHI
  See BRONCHUS
• BRONCHITIC
  Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation.
• DORSALLY
  On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
• 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
• BRONCHIOLE
  A minute bronchial tube.
• DORSAL
  Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral. Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior,
• BRONCHIC
  Bronchial.
• BIRDSEED
  Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
• DORSALE
  See N
• BRONCHITIS
  Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.
• BRONCHIA
  The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi. Dunglison.
• SUBBRONCHIAL
  Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds.
• ENTOBRONCHIUM
  One of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.
• PREBRONCHIAL
  Situated in front of the bronchus; -- applied especially to an air sac on either side of the esophagus of birds.
• NIBELUNGS
  In German mythology, the children of the mist, a race of dwarfs or demonic beings, the original possessors of the famous hoard and ring won by Siegfrid; also, the Burgundian kings in the Nibelungenlied.
• MESOBRONCHIUM
  The main bronchus of each lung.
• TRACHEOBRONCHIAL
  Pertaining both to the tracheal and bronchial tubes, or to their junction; -- said of the syrinx of certain birds.
• ECTOBRONCHIUM
  One of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.
• PREDORSAL
  Situated in front of the back; immediately in front, or on the ventral side the dorsal part of the vertebral column.
• PARABRONCHIUM
  One of the branches of an ectobronchium or entobronchium.