Lung Anatomy

lung anatomy  ✓ List the parts of parietal pleura and its recesses ✓ Describe the surface anatomy of both pleura and lungs ✓ Describe the anatomy of lungs : shape, When air is inhaled through the nose or mouth, it travels down the trachea to the bronchus, where it first enters the lung

Each lung has three surfaces The medial or mediastinal surface is marked by the hilum where the bronchi and blood vessels enter; the concave inferior suface Lung The lungs are two irregular shaped cones occupying the thoracic cavity within the pleural cavities on either side of the

The background lung is 20 percent tissue and 80 percent air, and has a certain uniform greyness that you'll learn to recognize It is lighter than the black Inferior to the right lung below the diaphragm lies the liver It causes the right dome of the diaphragm to be higher, and therefore, the right lung is shorter