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the highway your lungs built so air never gets lost on the way home
means Either of the two main airways that branch from the windpipe, one feeding each lung.
from From Greek 'bronchos,' meaning the windpipe or throat — the same family of words the Greeks used for the passage where air and voice travel. It came into anatomical Latin and then English, where it settled into 'bronchus' for the airways and gave us cousins like 'bronchitis' (that throat-and-tube swelling) and 'bronchial.'
- asymmetric pair
- Right one is wider, shorter, straighter than left
- inhaled objects
- Foreign items usually land in the right bronchus
- branching tree
- Splits into roughly 23 generations of airways
- cartilage rings
- C-shaped supports keep the tubes from collapsing
- self-cleaning
- Tiny cilia sweep mucus and dirt upward constantly
for instance
left main bronchus — anatomical branch of trachea in human lungs, angles 40-60 degrees from midline
right main bronchus — anatomical branch of trachea in human lungs, more vertical at 20-30 degrees, wider diameter than left