before a vowel bronch-. Med. Combining form of BRONCHUS, as in bronchadene [Gr. άδήν a gland], one of the bronchial glands; broncharctia, contraction of a bronchus (cf. bronchiarctia s.v. BRONCHIO-); broncho-pnenmonia = bronchiopneumonia (see BRONCHIO-); broncholith, a calcareous deposit in a bronchial gland (Syd. Soc. Lex.); bronchorrhœa, a kind of chronic bronchitis; etc. See also following words.
1858. Copland, Med. Dict., II. 769. Broncho-pneumonia very frequently intervenes in the course of Influenza.
1866. A. Flint, Princ. Med. (1880), 338. An abundant serous expectoration, constituting bronchorrhœa.
1877. Roberts, Handbk. Med., I. 374. Bronchorrhœa is most frequent in old people.
