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. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/cwg MP:0002267 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-397-51047-0 ]
Synonyms: lobular bronchiole
Term information
- NCIT:C12684
- MA:0000422
- MESH:D055745
- EHDAA:8183
- BTO:0002375
- EHDAA:8171
- Wikipedia:Bronchiole
- EMAPA:32697
- OpenCyc:Mx4rvl9iDpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
- FMA:7410
- EHDAA:8221
- UMLS:C0006270 (ncithesaurus:Bronchiole)
- CALOHA:TS-2003
- EHDAA:8199
- SCTID:278982001
- VHOG:0000675
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
lacks submucosa and cartilage plates; they have 3 layers: mucosa, muscular layer and outer layer
Term relations
- respiratory tube
- part of some tracheobronchial tree
- part of some pulmonary lobule
- branching part of some bronchus