Terminology Service for NFDI4Health
JSON

bronchus

Go to external page http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002185

The upper conducting airways of the lung; these airways arise from the terminus of the trachea. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-397-51047-0 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/cwg http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/A04.411.125 ]

Term info

Label

bronchus

Synonyms
  • bronchi
  • bronchial trunk
database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, organ_slim

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Respiratory_system_complete_numbered.svg

external definition

Each of the two primary divisions of the trachea leading respectively into the right and the left lung. [Dorian_AF, Elsevier's_encyclopaedic_dictionary_of_medicine, Part_B:_Anatomy_(1988)_Amsterdam_etc.:_Elsevier][VHOG]

has related synonym

bronchial tissue

id

UBERON:0002185

never in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_8507

taxon notes

In humans, the main bronchus is histologically identical to trachea; 2ary and 3ary bronchi are not; epithelium becomes simple columnar, goblet cell number decreases, elastic fibers in lamina propria increases, distribution more uniform. Muscular layer between mucosa and submucosa appears. cartilage rings become discontinuous plates connected by fibrous connective tissue