before a vowel bronchi-. Med. Combining form of BRONCHIA, as in bronchiarctia [L. ar(c)tus narrow], contraction of the bronchial tubes; BRONCHIECTASIS; bronchiocrisis [Gr. κρίσις crisis], ‘paroxysmal attacks resembling hooping cough occurring in tabes’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.); bronchiopneumonia, inflammation of the lungs, beginning in the bronchial membrane; bronchio-pulmonary a., pertaining to the bronchi and lungs.
1853. Black, in Edin. Monthly Jrnl. (title), On the Pathology of the Bronchio-Pulmonary Mucous Membrane.
