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bronch-

  1. variant of broncho- before a vowel.



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Example Sentences

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On Day 5 of this second hospital stay, she was scheduled for the bronch.

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If she needed a bronch, he’d be the one to do it.

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Her medical team reached out to the pulmonology service, the lung specialists, in case the patient needed a bronchoscopy — a bronch, for short.

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Each of the three patient death scenes are meticulously written, with crackling dialogue that readers will recognize from medical TV dramas: “He’s in ventricular fibrillation”; “I’m in the thorax and looking at the heart”; “Go ahead and bronch him!”

When she came back to see Dr. Cote, a few weeks after her “bronch,” she looked worse than ever.

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When To Use

What does bronch- mean?

Bronch- is a combining form used like a prefix representing the words bronchus or bronchia. The bronchus (plural bronchi) is either of two main branches of the trachea that goes to the lung. The bronchia are smaller branches off of the bronchi. Bronch- is used in many medical terms.Bronch- comes from the Greek óԳDz, meaning “windpipe,” another name for the trachea.Bronch- is a variant of broncho-, which loses its -o- when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels.Want to know more? Read our 51Թs That Use broncho- article.

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