bronchial artery

A systemic artery that supplies the lung with with oxygenated blood. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the bronchial artery is

A systemic artery that supplies the lung with with oxygenated blood. The atlas records it as a artery at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the bronchial artery is

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the bronchial artery connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of systemic arterial system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the bronchial artery. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as bronchial arterial tree, arteriae bronchiales and rami bronchiales partis thoracicae aortae. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002040, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: systemic arterial system.
• A kind of: systemic artery.
• Supplies: lung.
• contains: respiratory system arterial endothelium and respiratory system arterial smooth muscle.

Questions

Where is the bronchial artery?

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the bronchial artery connect to?

Part of: systemic arterial system.

Is the bronchial artery the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.