It means that it has to do with your bronchi, which are the two airways that split off from your windpipe and go to your lungs.
It can also mean it has to do with your bronchioles, which are the airways that split away from the bronchi like a web, cover, and actually attach to the lungs. They are the tubes that actually fill the lungs with air.
Though in most every context it will mean both collectively.
Whichever one it means, it has to do with the tubes that deliver air to your lungs. For example: Bronchitis is the inflammation of those pathways.
The lungs is composed of sections called lobes. combining form for lobes is lob/o
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Contra- is the combining form meaning against.Contra-
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