lower respiratory tract

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   the bronchi and lungs

   Broaderrespiratory tract

   Partslungbronchusbronchiole

Questions about lower respiratory tract

What does lower respiratory tract mean?

lower respiratory tract means "the bronchi and lungs".

Is lower respiratory tract a common word?

lower respiratory tract is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.