Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated above an artery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Situated upon or above an artery; -- applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off above the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Situated upon or above an
artery ; applied especially to the branches of thebronchi given off above the point where thepulmonary artery crosses thebronchus .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is termed the eparterial branch of the bronchus, because it arises above the right pulmonary artery.
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The left bronchus has no eparterial branch, and therefore it has been supposed by some that there is no upper lobe to the left lung, but that the so-called upper lobe corresponds to the middle lobe of the right lung.
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The left bronchus passes below the level of the pulmonary artery before it divides, and hence all its branches are hyparterial; it may therefore be looked upon as equivalent to that portion of the right bronchus which lies on the distal side of its eparterial branch.
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This branch arises above the level of the pulmonary artery, and is therefore named the eparterial bronchus.
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