brevilineal

comparative more brevilineal · superlative most brevilineal

1. Short and stocky.

   This is more prominent in brevilineal individuals, and thus the origin of the left lower lobe (LLL) bronchus is accessible in rigid bronchoscopy only by using small tubes.

   2018, Pierre Philippe Baldeyrou, Amir Hanna, Nicusor Adrian Crutu, Normal and Pathological Bronchial Semiology: A Visual Approach, page 15

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   The study of biotype also led to interesting conclusions: 53 patients were normolineal, 28 longilineal and only 19 brevilineal; actually , some represented an intermediate type , to which White has called attention: athletic, muscular, overweight subjects, whome Sheldon classified as endomorph-mesomorphs, that is brevilineal tending to normolineal.

   1969, Carlo Sirtori, Fondazione Carlo Erba, Medicine, Biology, and Surgery at the Carlo Erba Foundation, page 589

   The three basic body types marked different fertility types: brevilineal was cast as the most fertile woman at the top of the scale, longuilineal at the bottom, with the normal types in the middle.

   2013, Yolanda Eraso, Representing Argentinian Mothers, page 71