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What is a mainstem?

What is a mainstem? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The principal watercourse of a river that has multiple streams
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Bronchoscopy revealed a normal distal trachea, carina and right mainstem bronchus.
The commission's goal is to reduce gillnet fishing on the mainstem Columbia, where the nets kill wild salmon protected by the Endangered Species Act.
An esophagram was subsequently performed, and demonstrated a fistulous connection between the esophagus and the left mainstem bronchus.
To induce left lung alveolar hypoxia, the left mainstem bronchus was reversibly occluded with a microvascular clip.
With respect to the lungs, formalin was infused through the trachea or mainstem bronchi until the lungs were normally expanded.
The right mainstem bronchus, more superiorly located, tends to be more vertically oriented, having a 155o angle of origin.

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