
in the mucous membrane at all, and then these vessels will be of the minutest size imaginable and have a distribution totally different from and unlike to the proper plexus which is connected with the pulmonary veins - Both sets may however be made visible in the same specimen, as already shewn in Series B No 4, and both <s>are<\s> are then found to be entirely distinct, and it is evident therefore that they enter into no sort of anastomosis - If the predominance of force in making the in= =jections of the Pulmonary vessels has been applied to the pulmonary artery the coloured fluid injected into that vessel may have been made to pass through the capillaries distributed to the leaflets into the plexus, which lines the mucous membrane, and then it can be made apparent that they are continuous with that plexus, which however is more nearly allied to the pulmonary veins,- since the injection sent by the pulmonary artery does not reach them, until after it has passed through the capillaries of the leaflets - This plexus makes the only deviation from that which is perfectly simple and evident in the ar= =rangement by which the arterialized blood is conducted
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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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