bronchial artery
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
- EMAPA:18608
- FMA:68109
- Wikipedia:Bronchial_artery
- MA:0001923
- SCTID:244247009
- GAID:477
- MESH:D001981
- NCIT:C32230
- UMLS:C0006257 (ncithesaurus:Bronchial_Artery)
uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas
Although there is much variation, there are usually two bronchial arteries that run to the left lung, and one to the right lung.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Gray1032.png
arteriae bronchiales, rami bronchiales partis thoracicae aortae
uberon
UBERON:0002040
Bronchial artery
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606