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bronchial artery

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A systemic artery that supplies the lung with with oxygenated blood. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronchial_artery http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_cjm ]

Term info

Label

bronchial artery

Synonyms
  • bronchial arterial tree
database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim

latin term
rami bronchiales partis thoracicae aortae [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronchial_artery ]

comment

Although there is much variation, there are usually two bronchial arteries that run to the left lung, and one to the right lung.

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Gray1032.png

has related synonym

arteriae bronchiales, rami bronchiales partis thoracicae aortae

id

UBERON:0002040

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