bronchus

The upper conducting airways of the lung; these airways arise from the terminus of the trachea. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the bronchus is

The upper conducting airways of the lung; these airways arise from the terminus of the trachea. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the bronchus is

It sits within the respiratory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the bronchus connects to

The atlas records 25 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of tracheobronchial tree and lung.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: bronchial vein, left bronchial vein and right bronchial vein.

Also called

Also recorded as bronchi, bronchial trunk and bronchial tissue. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002185, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: tracheobronchial tree and lung.
• A kind of: respiratory tube.
• contains: bronchial-associated lymphoid tissue, bronchial lumen, bronchial mucosa, bronchus smooth muscle, bronchus submucosal gland and cartilage of bronchus, and 5 more.
• Drained by: bronchial vein, left bronchial vein and right bronchial vein.
• subtype: intrapulmonary bronchus, main bronchus and terminal bronchus.
• flows to: bronchiole and trachea.
• contributes to morphology of: cartilage of bronchus and epithelium of bronchus.
• located in: thoracic cavity.

Questions

Where is the bronchus?

It sits within the respiratory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the bronchus connect to?

Part of: tracheobronchial tree and lung.

Is the bronchus 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.