A technique by which cells and fluid from bronchioles and lung alveoli are removed for diagnosis of disease or evaluation of treatment. A bronchoscope is wedged into a bronchus and sterile saline is pumped in and then removed along with the fluid and cells to be analyzed. — BTO
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from the seeder's rules, not from a curator.
Source attestations
Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion
counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources —
GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.
What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source
Label / path
Assertions
Unit
PREGO
bronchoalveolar lavage fluid
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TAXON
Associated taxa
Taxa reported from this habitat, which is weaker than being
characteristic of it. rank is out of pool: a high rank in a
pool of thousands of near-tied scores is a weak claim. Entries corroborated by a
second, independent source are listed first.