
quite obliterated - But avoiding these errors and carefully inspect= =ing moist specimens of properly injected lungs, it will be found that the terminal Bronchial tubes split up into certain minute branches, which, as they differ both from the ultimate pulmonary tissue, and from the true Bronc= =hial tubes, ought properly speaking, to be considered as holding an intermediate con= =dition between the two, and as such to be entitled to a distinctive appellation - It is now proposed to call them, for the sake of distinction 'pedicels'. Pedicels. Their length does not much exceed their diameters, and they are not furnished with what may strictly be called a mucous membrane. The walls of the Bronchial tubes up to the point of giving off the pedicels are of consi= =derable thickness, and their interior <s>does not greatly exceed<\s> is lined with mucous mem= =brane, and this is covered with a very re= =markable and very vascular plexus, which is exclusively connected with the pulmonary vessels, and more particularly with the pulmo=
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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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