
veins and thus make a little whirlpool or vortex creating a confusion only to be equalled by that in the intellects of those who adopt such a theory - The attribute of the pulmonary veins is continually to increase in size but to give off no branches; their duty is to gather the arterial blood from every part of the lungs and to deliver it to the left auricle of the heart - It has likewise been seen that the pulmonary arteries give off no vessels of supply; that office is wholly discharged by the Bronchial arteries -
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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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