receives a moderate quantity of extremely mi=
=nute blood-vessels derived from the Bronchial
artery, evidently merely for the repair of its
tissue, in common with every other part of
the lungs, which in like manner is supplied
from the same source for the same purpose,
but the special vascular plexus, with which
the surface of the mucous membrane is covered,
is wholly in connection with the Pulmonary
vessels, and more especially with the pulmo=
=nary veins, and is not in the slightest degree
associated with the Bronchial arteries.
- A magnificent drawing of one of the Pedicels,
entering a leaflet is shewn in figure 6 of the
same series viz A No 5, of which figure a has
been already mentioned. The capillaries of
the Pulmonary artery are seen ramifying upon
the surface of the leaflet, while those in con=
=nection with the pulmonary veins, which
were injected yellow in the specimen from which
that drawing was taken have been removed, by
soaking the <s>specimen<\s> preparation in Goadbys solution
. Fig c. in the same drawing shews a less magni=
=fied representation of the termination of an ultimate
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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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