What is a bronchiole?

Answer 1

It is medication taken by an inhauler or hand held nebulizer which helps to open up the bronchi to help people who are having a difficult time with breathing. Most frequently seen in Asthma patients.

Answer 2

The bronchioles are small branches found in the bronchi of lungs. They are lined with tiny hair-like structures called the cilia.

Answer 3

The two branches of the trachea that lead to the lungs.

Plural form of Bronchus

It can be defined as followed. major air passages of the lungs.
The bronchis, or bronchus are tubes that are connected to the trachea where the air is sent to each lung. The bronchioles are even smaller airways that send the air on to the inside walls of the lungs where the alveolia allow the oxygen to be absorbed by the blood cells and oxegenate the blood for transfer throughout the body.
bronchi is plural of bronchus. It carries air to lungs.

Answer 4

The bronchi are the two pipes that split off from the trachea and connect to each lung (there are two of them, one for each lung). They are the two branching airway vessels that come directly after the trachea. They are made of non-collapsible cartilage, and they are non-constrictable. There are two bronchi: one to the left, and one to the right, branching off the trachea. After the bronchi come the bronchioles, airway ducts that branch much more extensively and are constrictable.

Answer 5

Bronchioles

The small airways branching off the TERTIARY BRONCHI. Terminal bronchioles lead into several orders of respiratory bronchioles which in turn lead into alveolar ducts and then into PULMONARY ALVEOLI.A. bronchus. is a main branch of the airway located below the trachea and above the bronchioles.

Answer 6

Could you mean "bronchi"? or "bronchial"? A bronchi is the word for one of the bronchus which is "either of the two primary divisions of the trachea that lead respectively into the right and the left lung" (Miriam-Webster Medical Dictionary).

http://www2.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwmednlm

These are commonly called the "bronchial tubes". Or it could be used as the singular form of the word "bronchium", "a branch of a bronchus; especially : one joining a primary bronchus to its bronchioles. " Either way it is part of the respiratory system (nose, throat and lungs).

Try looking these words up in the National Library of Medicine's website Medlineplus. You'll find a drawing there of the lungs, bronchial tubes, etc. which might make it clearer. Here's a link

http://www2.merriam-webster.com/mw/art/med/respirat.htm

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Answer 7

Bronchi are the branches of trachea that act as air passages to the lungs.

Answer 8

The primary bronchi are the first two large branches off the trachea (wind pipe). They branch to form secondary bronchi. One will go to each of the three lobes of the lungs.