prebronchial

English

Etymology

Adjective

prebronchial (not comparable)

(anatomy) Situated in front of the bronchus; applied especially to an air sac on either side of the esophagus of birds.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prebronchial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)