bronchus

Definition

The upper conducting airways of the lung; these airways arise from the terminus of the trachea.

Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0

Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Relations

Arterial supply

bronchial artery

Venous drainage

bronchial veins

Sub-structures

• cartilage of lobar bronchus
• cartilage of segmental bronchus
• interlobar bronchus
• left main bronchus
• lobar bronchus of left lung
• lobar bronchus of right lung
• middle lobar bronchus
• right main bronchus
• segmental bronchus
• main bronchus

Neighbouring structures

• segment of bronchial tree

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Identifiers

TA2

3226

FMA

7409

UBERON

0002185

Wikidata

Q181602