The distribution
of the Bronchial
arteries
The Bronchial arteries accompany
closely the Bronchial tubes in all
their ramifications, being firmly bound down
to them. They divide as the tubes themselves
divide, but become more numerous, and give
off branches, which ramify in the different
layers of the sub-pleural cellular tissue -
The Bronchial arteries also freely supply the
fibro-cartilaginous structure of the Bronchial
tubes and the fibrous structure also where
the cartilages are absent, with a free rami=
=fication of fine vessels, and some of these
extend in the form of exceedingly minute
capillaries into the tissue of the mucous mem=
=brane, which lines them. These are exceed=
=ingly minute and they occupy a distinct
and independent course making the anas=
=tomosis with the proper vascular plexus in
connection with the pulmonary plexus,
which is spread over the mucous membrane -
<s>some very fine vessels extend however<\s>
The mucous membrane requires a supply of
vessels for the repairs of its tissue in common
with that of the remainder of the lungs - and
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Manuscript details
- 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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