
Formation and course of the Pulmonary veins Having now traced the blood brought by the Pulmonary artery and having seen that every portion of it reaches the leaflets, and is there distributed in such a manner as to be <s>exposed<\s> suited to its fullest exposure to the atmosphere, but not in any degree so as to furnish any structure with its supplies for its repairs or construction, it remains to be seen in what way this blood, now become arte= =rialized is collected again into the veins, which are to conduct it back to the heart - The arrangement by which this is done, would be altogether as simple and unequivocal as the distribution of the artery, were it not that a diverticulum of a part of the blood returning from the leaflets is made, whereby a portion of it undergoes a second application <s>the<\s>to the atmos= =pheric influence by being spread out in an ex= =tensive plexus, which is distributed over the surface of the Bronchial mucous membrane, and is made to supply the Bronchial mucus, previous to reaching the larger trunks of the veins - The feature which prominently attracts attention when examining a lung in which the Pulmonary
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- Author
- James Newton Heale
- Reference
- AP/43/4
- Series
- AP
- Date
- 1860
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Physiological Anatomy of the Lungs, 1860. From The Royal Society, AP/43/4
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