VAN 121: Veterinary Gross Anatomy-II (2+2)

BRONCHIAL ARTERY

• Visceral unpaired. It is the nutrient artery of the lungs.
• It arises from the inferior face of the aorta, descends across the left face of the oesophagus where it divides into right and left bronchial arteries of which the right is larger.
• Each artery reaches the root of the corresponding lung enters the organ, detaches small branches to the bronchial lymph glands, passes on the dorsal face of the bronchi and accompanies its ramifications.