
=sentations of the air channels which exist in the long bones of birds - Whether these channels in the Pleura transmit air only, or whether they transmit Bronchial mucus, or whether they are in some way annex= =ed with the Lymphatic system may <s>possibly<\s> perhaps be a matter of doubt, but no doubt exists or can by any possibility arise that the function they discharge belongs exclusively to the process of Respiration, since the fact that they derive their blood from the Pulmonary system and not from the Bronchial, leaves no possibility of a question on that head - Costal Pleura The costal Pleura in like manner derives its supply of blood from the pulmonary vessels; about eight or ten arteries of considerable size, deriv= =ed from the pulmonary artery and about twelve or sixteen corresponding veins of some magnitude cross behind that fold of the Pleura (which some= =times goes by the name of the broad ligament) to reach the Thoracic pleura and to become dis= =tributed upon it; imparting therefore to that structure also properties auxiliary to the process of Respiration -
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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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