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bronchiole

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The conducting airway of the lungs found terminal to the bronchi; these structures contain neither cartilage nor mucous-secreting glands; the epithelium of the bronchioles becomes thinner with each branching. [ MP:0002267 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-397-51047-0 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/cwg ]

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

plural term
bronchioli

comment

In some texts/references/ontologies, bronchiole has been used as an exact synonym of 'lobular bronchiole'. However, a 'lobular bronchiole' is a segment of a bronchiole.

depicted by

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Alveoli_diagram.png

external ontology notes

In FMA2 and FMA3, lobular bronchiole is an exact synonym of bronchiole; however, there are two distinct terms for the corresponding epithelium.

has related synonym

bronchioli

bronchiolus

id

UBERON:0002186

structure notes

lacks submucosa and cartilage plates; they have 3 layers: mucosa, muscular layer and outer layer