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bronchial artery
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bronchial artery,
the nutritive vascular system of the pulmonary tissues, originating from the thoracic aorta or one of its branches. They interconnect within the lung with branches of the pulmonary arteries and veins.


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These branches persist as enlarged supradiaphragmatic and infradiaphragmatic aortic branches, or as bronchial arteries in cases in which the pulmonary artery does not develop (2).
Isolated left pulmonary artery agenesis/Izole sol pulmoner arter ... by Tasci, Canturk; Ozturk, Cengiz; Karadurmus, Nuri; Ertugrul, Ibrahim; Bal, Senol; Balkan, Arzu; Ozkan / The Anatolian Journal of Cardiology (Anadolu Kardiyoloji Dergisi)
Major aorto-pulmonary collateral arteries of patients with pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect are dilated bronchial arteries.
A case of right isomerism showing long survival without surgery by Moriyama, Masatsugu / Southern Medical Journal
In this system, bronchial arteries bring oxygenated blood from the left side of the heart to the airways (bronchi, bronchioles) and the supporting structures (connective tissue) of the lung.
THE LUNGS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE by Pamphlet by: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
 
 
 
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