A bronchiole that is part of a secondary pulmonary lobule and the last conducting structure of a non-respiratory bronchiole; after this point, the airways have alveoli in their walls. [ MP:0002268 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16543587 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-397-51047-0 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/cwg ]
Synonyms: bronchiolus terminalis
Term information
- FMA:7411
- MA:0000424
- EMAPA:36282
- NCIT:C33754
- BTO:0003223
- SCTID:278981008
- Wikipedia:Terminal_bronchiole
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas
Term relations
- bronchiole
- distally connected to some pulmonary acinus
- distally connected to some respiratory bronchiole
- part of some secondary pulmonary lobule