Phys. Pl. bronchi (also 8 improperly bronchæ). [mod.L., a. Gr. βρόγχος the wind-pipe.] Each of the two main branches of the trachea or wind-pipe.
1706. in Phillips, Bronchus; hence in Bailey, 1731.
1782. A. Munro, Anat. (ed. 3), 59. The water … passes betwixt the interstices of the bronchi, and the flap that covers them.
1769. W. Buchan, Dom. Med. (1790), 175. A phthisis occasioned by a small bone sticking in the bronchæ.
1831. R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 627. The Right Bronchus is wider, shorter, and more horizontal than the left.
1881. Mivart, Cat, 223. The bronchi have the same structure as the trachea.
