bronchiole

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002186

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/ ]

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NCIT:C12684
SCTID:278982001
EHDAA:8183
CALOHA:TS-2003
EMAPA:32697
FMA:7410
BTO:0002375
EHDAA:8171
EHDAA:8221
MESH:D055745
VHOG:0000675
EHDAA:8199
UMLS:C0006270 (ncithesaurus:Bronchiole)
Wikipedia:Bronchiole
MA:0000422

Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

plural term

bronchioli

UBPROP 0000007

bronchiolar

UBPROP 0000010

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

UBPROP 0000012

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

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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

has related synonym

bronchioli, bronchiolus

has obo namespace

uberon

UBERON:0002186

prefLabel

Bronchiole