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bronchial artery

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002040


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 ]

Synonyms: bronchial arterial tree

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas

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

prefLabel

Bronchial artery

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606

Term relations

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