Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of outbranch
nounoutbranching (plural outbranchings)
plural outbranchings
- An outbranch.
The 3a dichotomizes into branchings marked 4a and 4b, of which 4b has not been followed any further, but 4a again divides dichotomously into 5a and 5b, whose walls show alveolar outbranchings, so that they are to be regarded as respiratory bronchioles.
1922, The American Journal of Anatomy - Volume 30, page 274
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