What are the bronchi?
It is called the bronchi. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the two main branches of the trachea.
What it is
- The two main branches of the trachea.
- The right main bronchus is wider, shorter, and more vertical than the left.
- Each divides again and again inside the lung.
Where it is
- Enter the lungs at the hila.
- The right bronchus supplies the right lung; the left the left lung.
- Their walls contain rings of cartilage.
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