Lung
Pulmo
Gas exchange: oxygen into the blood and carbon dioxide out of it, across the alveolar walls.
- System
- respiratory
- Region
- Thorax
- Sides
- Paired: left and right
Where it runs from and to
What this structure is anchored to at each end, and what that lets it do.
- Origin
- Pleural cavity either side of the mediastinum, filling the chest around the heart.
- Action
- Gas exchange: oxygen into the blood and carbon dioxide out of it, across the alveolar walls.
- Nerve
- Pulmonary plexus, from the vagus and the sympathetic trunk.
Written for Vetomica in its own words from the standard reference anatomy of the cat; the books it was checked against are listed below.
Terminology
- English
- Lung
- Latin (NAV)
- Pulmo
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
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