Right pulmonary artery
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Right pulmonary artery
| Artery: Right pulmonary artery | |
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| Pulmonary vessels, seen in a dorsal view of the heart and lungs. The lungs have been pulled away from the median line, and a part of the right lung has been cut away to display the air-ducts and bloodvessels. | |
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| Transverse section of thorax, showing relations of pulmonary artery. | |
| Latin | arteria pulmonalis dextra |
| Gray's | subject #141 545 |
| Source | pulmonary artery |
The right pulmonary artery or right branch of the pulmonary artery, longer and larger than the left, runs horizontally to the right, behind the ascending aorta and superior vena cava and in front of the right bronchus, to the root of the right lung, where it divides into two branches. The lower and larger of these goes to the middle and lower lobes of the lung; the upper and smaller is distributed to the upper lobe.
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