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Bronchoscopy
Bronchoscopy: endoscopic examination of the airways using flexible or rigid bronchoscopes. Began with Gustav Killian in 1897; flexible fiberoptic scope introduced by Shigeto Ikeda in 1967; now includes EBUS, navigational, and robotic bronchoscopy for lung nodule biopsy.
Bronchoscopy with biopsy
Bronchoscopy with biopsy is a procedure in which a bronchoscope is passed into the airways to obtain tissue for diagnosing lung cancer, sarcoidosis, and interstitial lung disease.
Bronchospasm
Bronchospasm is sudden constriction of bronchiole smooth muscle causing breathing difficulty, most commonly in asthma; also seen in COPD, anaphylaxis, and anesthesia, treated with oxygen and beta-2 agonists.
Bronchospirometry
Bronchospirometry: invasive spirometric technique recording ventilation and gas exchange of the right and left lung separately, devised by Jacobaeus, Frenckner, and Bjorkman in 1932 and later replaced by scintigraphy.
Bronchus
Bronchus: the large airway branching from the trachea at the carina into right and left main bronchi, then lobar and segmental bronchi; right side wider and more vertical, common site of aspiration and anatomical variation.
Bronco (group)
Bronco, also known as El Gigante de América, is a Mexican grupero group founded in 1979 in Apodaca, Nuevo León, and led since its beginning by singer Lupe Esparza.
Bronco (TV series)
Bronco (TV series): American ABC Western, 1958-1962, 68 hour-long episodes, Ty Hardin as ex-Confederate drifter Bronco Layne; born from the Clint Walker Cheyenne contract dispute; distinct from the 2019 Spanish series Bronco La Serie about the band.
Bronco Bullfrog
Bronco Bullfrog is a 1969 British black-and-white drama, Barney Platts-Mills's debut feature, made for about £17,000 with non-professional East London teenagers from Joan Littlewood's Playbarn, portraying suedehead youth culture in Stratford and rediscovered through BFI restorations.
Bronco Mendenhall
Bronco Mendenhall (born 1966, Alpine, Utah) is an American college football coach, head coach at Utah State since 2024, formerly head coach at BYU (99-43), Virginia (36-38), and New Mexico, known for rebuilding losing programs.
Bronco Nima
Bronco Nima (Edwin Grande, born 1998, Oakland, California) is a WWE wrestler, ex-Division I football player, OTM tag team member with Lucien Price, and now part of The 946 on Raw.
Brøndby IF
Brøndby IF (Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening), Danish football club founded 1964 in Brøndby, Copenhagen. 11 league titles, 7 cups, 1991 UEFA Cup semifinal, 1998 Champions League group stage; majority owned by Global Football Holdings since 2022.
Brondo
Brondo is the stage name of Thomas O'Connell, an American dubstep producer and DJ based in Castle Rock, Colorado, known for jungle-themed Bass Jungle shows and Decadence festival sets.
Bronfman family
The Bronfman family: Bessarabian Jewish immigrants who arrived in Canada in 1889 and built Seagram, once the world's largest distilling firm; sold to Vivendi in 2000, with brands absorbed by Pernod Ricard and Diageo.
Brong-Ahafo Region
Brong-Ahafo Region, former region of Ghana, capital Sunyani, created 4 April 1959 from Ashanti and Northern territory; second largest region at 39,557 km2; split in 2019 into Bono, Bono East, and Ahafo regions.
Bronislav Kaminski (Бронислав Владиславович Каминский)
Bronislav Kaminski (Бронислав Владиславович Каминский, 1899–1944), also Bronisław Kaminski, led the Lokot Autonomy and the RONA (Russian National Liberation Army) brigade, later a Waffen-SS unit, noted for anti-partisan atrocities, the 1944 Ochota massacre in Warsaw, and his execution by the Germans.
Bronislav Verigo
Bronislav Verigo, born Boris Fortunatovich Verigo, was a Russian physiologist whose 1892 work gave his name to the Verigo effect, and who founded physiology at Perm University.
Bronisław Baczko
Bronisław Baczko (1924–2016) was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas who studied the Enlightenment, utopia, and the French Revolution, winning the 2011 Balzan Prize.
Bronisław Bebel
Bronisław Bebel, Polish volleyball player and coach born 1949 in Noyelles-sous-Lens, France; Olympic gold medalist at Montreal 1976, 199-cap national team player 1968–1978, four Polish titles with Resovia, 1977 European silver.
Bronisław Knaster
Bronisław Knaster (1893–1980) was a Polish mathematician in point-set topology and set theory, known for the Knaster continuum, the KKM theorem, and the Knaster–Tarski fixed-point theorem.
Bronisław Komorowski
Bronisław Komorowski (born 1952, Oborniki Śląskie), Polish president 2010–2015, former Civic Platform Sejm Marshal and defense minister; became Acting President after Lech Kaczyński's Smoleńsk death, won the 2010 election, lost to Andrzej Duda in 2015.
Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), Polish-born British social anthropologist at LSE, pioneer of intensive Trobriand Islands fieldwork, author of Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922), and founder of functionalist kinship theory.
Bronislaw Onuf-Onufrowicz
Bronislaw Onuf-Onufrowicz (1863–1928) was an American neuroanatomist and neuropsychiatrist who in 1899 identified Onuf's nucleus, the spinal structure controlling the external urethral and anal sphincters.
Bronko Nagurski
Bronko Nagurski, born Bronislau Nagurski (1908–1990), was a Canadian-born American football fullback who powered the Chicago Bears to three NFL championships and later won world heavyweight wrestling titles.
Bronny James
Bronny James (LeBron Raymone James Jr., born 2004) is an NBA guard, son of LeBron James, drafted 55th overall in 2024 by the Lakers; first father-son duo to play in an NBA game.
Bronopol
Bronopol (2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diol, CAS 52-51-7, INN) is a brominated nitro-alcohol preservative and biocide for cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and industrial water systems; it kills microbes by thiol oxidation and releases formaldehyde on degradation.
Bronski Beat
Bronski Beat: British synth-pop trio formed in London in 1983 by Jimmy Somerville, Steve Bronski, and Larry Steinbachek; gay-activist pop band behind "Smalltown Boy" (UK No. 3, 1984) and the album The Age of Consent.
Brońsko Gas Field
Brońsko is a natural gas field in western Poland, discovered in 1998 and producing since 2001 from Zechstein Limestone reefs, with initial reserves of 26.7 billion cubic meters.
Bronson (film)
Bronson (2008) is Nicolas Winding Refn's British biographical drama starring Tom Hardy as prisoner Michael Peterson, aka Charles Bronson; a $230,000 cult film that earned Hardy a British Independent Film Award and 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Bronson Arroyo
Bronson Arroyo, MLB pitcher 2000-2017 (Pirates, Red Sox, Reds, Diamondbacks), 148-137, 4.28 ERA, 2004 World Series champion, 2006 All-Star, 2010 Gold Glove, Reds Hall of Famer and recording artist.
Bronson Pinchot
Bronson Pinchot (born 1959) is an American actor, Balki Bartokomous on Perfect Strangers (1986–93) and Serge in Beverly Hills Cop; Emmy-nominated in 1987, also a 400-plus audiobook narrator and star of Netflix's The Residence (2025).