THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. 



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The lung receives blood from two sources : 1, venous blood, 

 through the pulmonary artery, which is oxygenated in the walls of 

 the alveoli ; 2, arterial blood, through the bronchial arteries. This 

 arterial blood serves for the nourishment of the tissues of the lung 

 and is distributed to the bronchi, interlobular connective tissue, 

 lymph-glands, and walls of the vessels. Part of this blood returns 

 through the pulmonary veins; the rest through the bronchial veins. 



FIG. 149. 



c: ---d 



Section of lung of the dog: a, oblique section of a bronchiole ; 6, its muscular coat ; c, longi- 

 tudinal section of an infundibulum. communicating to the right with an alveolar passage 

 (the wall of the latter is torn further to the right) ; d, one of the alveoli opening into c. 



The lymphatics arise in the walls of the alveoli and bronchi and 

 pass to the bronchial lymph-glands. 



The nerves supplying the lung may be traced along the bronchi, 

 where they occasionally connect with groups of ganglion-cells, and 

 along the vessels. They are of both the medullated and the non- 

 medullated varieties. 



The surface of the lung is covered with serous membrane, a por- 

 tion of the pleura. 



Little need be said about the functional activity of the lung. 

 The cilia, belonging to the columnar epithelium lining nearly the 



