bronchiole
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 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/cwg http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0-397-51047-0&isbn=1/ ]
Term info
- SCTID:278982001
- EHDAA:8221
- EHDAA:8183
- UMLS:C0006270 (ncithesaurus:Bronchiole)
- MA:0000422
- MESH:D055745
- NCIT:C12684
- FMA:7410
- VHOG:0000675
- EHDAA:8171
- BTO:0002375
- Wikipedia:Bronchiole
- EHDAA:8199
- EMAPA:32697
- CALOHA:TS-2003
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
bronchiolar
lacks submucosa and cartilage plates; they have 3 layers: mucosa, muscular layer and outer layer
In FMA2 and FMA3, lobular bronchiole is an exact synonym of bronchiole; however, there are two distinct terms for the corresponding epithelium.
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.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Alveoli_diagram.png
bronchioli, bronchiolus
uberon
UBERON:0002186
Bronchiole
Term relations
- respiratory tube
- part of some tracheobronchial tree
- part of some pulmonary lobule
- branching part of some tracheobronchial tree