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Subdivisions are named with a diminutive form of the base word. In the respiratory system, the large airways are bronchi (plural) and bronchus (singular), but the smaller branches that come off them are bronchioles. The term bronchiolo- (as in bronchiolus/bronchioles) signals these tiny subdivisions. So the correct term for the subdivisions is bronchiolo. The other terms refer to larger airways (bronchi, bronchus) or an unrelated root (litho means stone).