What's the difference between bronchi and bronchic?
Bronchi
Definition:
(n. pl.) See Bronchus.
(pl. ) of Bronchus
Example Sentences:
(1) Valvular stenoses of the bronchi and especially of the bronchioles in various types of primary pulmonary disease are of considerable importance etiologically.
(2) It was also found that bunitrolol in the dosages tested is a much more potent beta-blocking drug in the bronchi compared to practolol in the dosages tested were equivalent.
(3) It is suggested that lung ventilation takes place in the avian embryo in three distinct stages: the major air-ways become aerated, then respiratory movements begin and lastly the tertiary bronchi are slowly aerated.
(4) The blood flow contributions and drainage patterns of the pulmonary and systemic circulations in the upper airways (trachea and main bronchi) were assessed in anesthetized dogs by injecting 15-micron radiolabeled microspheres into the right and left heart, respectively.
(5) The bronchi were involved more often than the trachea and the foreign body was located more frequently at the right bronchus (38 pt).
(6) 7 cases with bronchiectasis of left lower lobe and lingular segment were treated with left lower lobectomy and extirpation of the bronchi of lingular segment.
(7) Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the trachea was performed in twenty-one children with congenital or acquired narrowing of the trachea or main bronchi.
(8) These findings indicate structural abnormalities in the secretory apparatus of neuroendocrine cells in dysplastic bronchi and correlate with experimental observations of aberrant hormonal production associated with bronchial dysplasia.
(9) In the genesis of small airways obstruction (SAO) we have to consider two alterations with different prognoses: the first, in which the obstruction depends on a reduction of the diameters of the small bronchi (i.e.
(10) In two of the cases in which almost the whole lungs were studied on continuous slice images with thin slice high resolution CT, sub-sub-subsegmental bronchi could be easily delineated, except in for the lingular segment.
(11) These histologic changes were not observed in the recipient bronchi during acute rejection, nor were they seen in the donor and the recipient bronchi during lung infection without rejection.
(12) At 1 week after infection, mycoplasma cells were found in large numbers in the bronchi at the surface of bronchial epithelial cells and, in smaller numbers, in the alveoli where active phagocytosis by polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) occurred.
(13) Histidine decarboxylase activity was not found in cells of nonpathogenic neisseria, obtained from bronchi of patients with infectious asthma.
(14) The present results indicate that the systemic (bronchial) circulation is the primary source of tracheal blood flow and that both the pulmonary and systemic circulations may contribute approximately 50% of the blood flow to the main bronchi in dog lungs.
(15) The three agonists provoked significant (p less than 0.05) bronchoconstriction at the level of the main bronchi when identical falls of FEV1 were achieved.
(16) In guinea pigs sensitized with 1 microgram ovalbumin together with 100 mg Al(OH)3, somatostatin levels were selectively increased up to two and 3 times in tissue extracts from trachea and bronchi, respectively, but not in lung as compared to controls.
(17) Diseased controls showed a high PD centrally which fell (became less negative) peripherally (trachea -15.8 mV (SEM 1.0), lobar bronchi -12.6 mV (1.2), segmental bronchi -9.8 mV (1.2].
(18) The consequence of these derangements is often widespread plugging of small bronchi and bronchioles.
(19) A 50% decrease was found in the ability of carcinogen-altered bronchi to act as a substrate for lipid peroxidation mediated by Adriamycin and an approximately 30% decrease for lipid peroxidation induced by t-butyl-hydroperoxide.
(20) Peak uptake values were found 5 min after Adriamycin administration, and the amounts of Adriamycin in normal and carcinogen-altered bronchi were found to be similar.
Bronchic
Definition:
(a.) Bronchial.
Example Sentences:
(1) Endoscopy, under general anesthesia, must be minute (with optics), explore oesophageal and laryngo-tracheo-bronchic tract, and use several tests to demonstrate permeability of the fistula when it has been located.
(2) While reporting on 9 cases of bilio-bronchic fistulas of hydatic origin, and with the help of literature data the authors are underlying a number of points: Hidatic bilio-bronchic fistulas are rare and a serious condition responsible of lesions at 3 levels, hepatic, diaphragmatic, and pulmonary.
(3) The treatment is always surgical, the approach is the abdominal way that permits the hepato-bronchic deconnection and the treatment of the hydatic cyst and to ensure the liberty of the common bile duct and to realise an eventuly drainage of the common bile duct to close the fistulous diaphragmatic communication and permit an inter-hepatodiaphragmatic drainage.
(4) Chromatography of extracts and culture media of a bronchical carcinoma demonstrated that, in contrast with the other tumours, it secreted a form or forms of calcitonin having size, charge and immunological differences when compared to calcitonin M. Preliminary evaluation of plasma immunoreactive calcitonin estimations in patients with breast carcinoma showed that twenty-three out of twenty-eight patients with metastatic disease had elevated plasma calcitonin concentrations, whereas only one out of thirteen with localized disease had high levels.
(5) Anatomo-pathological examination of 28 bronchic oat-cell carcinoma, all with cerebellar metastases and which are very often cerebral.
(6) The histologic examination revealed muciparous hyperplasia and pavementing metaplasia of the bronchic epithelium, accompanied by interstitial cellular reactions, reticulin, fibrilogenesis, atelectasis, emphysema and marked debility of the animals.
(7) Although the author is not able to explain the reason of palisades' genesis in cerebellar metastases, he insists on the fact that it iw very important - as far as every days' biopsy's study is concerned - to proceed to a differential histological diagnosis in regards to certain primitive tumors of the nervous system (among these the medulloblastoma) and a cerebellar metastasis of this type of bronchic carcinoma.
(8) These 287 exams consist of 145 bronchic aspiration liquids and 142 spittles.
(9) The discovery circumstances are represented by evolutive complication: infections in 58%, angiocholitis 45%, vascular compression 7.2% and bilio-bronchic fistulas in 6.4%.
(10) Contractions produced by comulative doses of acetylcholine were studied in isolated canine bronchical rings from 2 to 10 mm internal diameter.
(11) The relationship between bronchic asthma and tuberculosis has stimulated the greatest interest and most controversy.