2. • During life, the right and left lungs are soft and
spongy and very elastic.
• In the child, they are pink, but with age, they
become dark and mottled because of the
inhalation of dust particles.
3. • They are therefore separated from each other
by the heart and great vessels and other
structures in the mediastinum.
• Each lung is covered with visceral pleura, and
suspended free in its own pleural cavity, being
attached to the mediastinum only by its root.
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5. • Each lung has a blunt apex, which projects
upward into the neck for about 1 in.
• A concave base that sits on the diaphragm; a
convex costal surface, which corresponds to
the concave chest wall; and a concave
mediastinal surface, which is molded to the
pericardium and other mediastinal structures.
6. • At about the middle of this surface is the
hilum, a depression in which the
bronchi, vessels, and nerves that form the root
enter and leave the lung.
7.
8. • The anterior border is thin and overlaps the
heart.
• The posterior border is thick and lies beside
the vertebral column.
9. Right Lung
• The right lung is slightly larger than the left
and is divided by the oblique and horizontal
fissures into three lobes: the upper, middle, and
lower lobes.
10.
11. • The oblique fissure runs from the inferior
border upward and backward across the medial
and costal surfaces until it cuts the posterior
border about 2.5 in below the apex.
12. • The horizontal fissure runs horizontally across
the costal surface at the level of the fourth
costal cartilage to meet the oblique fissure in
the midaxillary line.
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14. • The middle lobe is thus a small triangular lobe
bounded by the horizontal and oblique
fissures.
15. Left Lung
• The left lung is divided by a similar oblique
fissure into two lobes: the upper and lower
lobes
• There is no horizontal fissure in the left lung.
16.
17. Bronchopulmonary Segments
• The bronchopulmonary segments are the
anatomic, functional, and surgical units of the
lungs.
• Each lobar (secondary) bronchus, which passes
to a lobe of the lung, gives off branches called
segmental (tertiary) bronchi.
18.
19. • Each segmental bronchus passes to a
structurally and functionally independent unit
of a lung lobe called a bronchopulmonary
segment.
20. • The segmental bronchus is accompanied by a
branch of the pulmonary artery, but the
tributaries of the pulmonary veins.
• Each segment has its own lymphatic vessels
and autonomic nerve supply.
21. • On entering a bronchopulmonary
segment, each segmental bronchus divides
repeatedly .
• As the bronchi become smaller, the U-shaped
bars of cartilage found in the trachea are
gradually replaced by irregular plates of
cartilage, which become smaller and fewer in
number.
22.
23.
24. • The smallest bronchi divide and give rise to
bronchioles, which are less than 1 mm in
diameter.
• Bronchioles possess no cartilage in their walls.
25. • The bronchioles then divide and give rise to
terminal bronchioles , which show delicate
out-pouchings from their walls.
• Gaseous exchange between blood and air takes
place in the walls of these outpouchings, which
explains the name respiratory bronchiole.
26. • The respiratory bronchioles end by branching
into alveolar ducts, which lead into tubular
passages with numerous thin-walled
outpouchings called alveolar sacs.
• The alveolar sacs consist of several alveoli
opening into a single chamber.
27. • Each alveolus is surrounded by a rich network
of blood capillaries.
28. • The root of the lung is formed of structures
that are entering or leaving the lung.
• It is made up of the bronchi, pulmonary artery
and veins, lymph vessels, bronchial
vessels, and nerves.
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30.
31. Blood Supply of the Lungs
• The bronchi and the visceral pleura receive
their blood supply from the bronchial
arteries, which are branches of the descending
aorta.
• The bronchial veins drain into the azygos and
hemiazygos veins.
32. Nerve Supply of the Lungs
• At the root of each lung is a pulmonary plexus
composed of efferent and afferent autonomic
nerve fibers.
• The plexus is formed from branches of the
sympathetic trunk and receives
parasympathetic fibers from the vagus nerve.
