The lungs are organs that allow you to breathe and are located in the thoracic cavity on either side of the heart and near the backbone. Their bases sit on the diaphragm, and their apexes extend into the root of the neck. The lungs perform gas exchange in microscopic alveoli, extracting oxygen from the air and transferring it to your bloodstream, while releasing carbon dioxide.
The respiratory system can be functionally divided into a conducting zone and a respiratory zone. The conducting zone forms a continuous passage for air moving in and out of the lungs, and includes the nose, pharynx, larynx, bronchi, and bronchioles. The respiratory zone is found deep in the lungs and is involved in gas exchange. This includes the respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts, and alveoli, which are air sacs 100-300 µm wide that allow gas exchange.
The respiratory system can also be divided anatomically into the upper and lower respiratory tracts. The upper respiratory tract consists of structures in the head and neck – in other words, the nose, pharynx, and larynx. The lower respiratory tract is located in the chest and includes the trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveolar ducts, and alveoli.
The lungs weigh around 1.3 kg and contain around two and a half thousand km of airways. The right lung is larger and heavier than the left, because the left needs to leave room for the heart. The right lung is subdivided into three lobes, while the left has two. However, the left lung has a structure homologous to the middle lobe of the right lung. On the left lung, the upper lobe has a projection called the “lingula”. The boundaries of these lobes are defined by fissures. The right lung has two fissures, one oblique and one horizontal. The left lung has only an oblique fissure.
The main, or primary, bronchi enter the lungs at the hilum, which is the area on the mediastinal surface of the lung through which structures enter and leave the lung. These primary bronchi branch into lobar, or secondary, bronchi, which supply air to each lobe of the lungs. The secondary bronchi then branch into segmental, or tertiary bronchi, which supply air to bronchopulmonary segments, which are subdivisions of the lobes. A bronchopulmonary segment has its own segmental bronchus and arterial supply.
The bronchi branch into bronchioles. The primary lobule, otherwise called the acinus, is the functional unit of the lung. It is composed of a single terminal bronchiole, numerous respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts, alveolar sacs, and around 10,000 alveoli. Pulmonary blood is delivered to it by a pulmonary arteriole and taken away by a pulmonary venule. The alveoli are where gas exchange takes place. Their 0.5-2 µm thick membranes form the blood-air barrier. Together, the 300-500 million alveoli in the lungs provide a huge surface area for gas exchange. Elastic fibers allow the alveoli to expand on inhalation. These spring back on exhalation to help expel carbon dioxide.
The lungs have a unique blood supply. They have two forms of circulation – pulmonary and bronchial. The pulmonary circulation brings deoxygenated blood from the body to the lungs via the pulmonary arteries and returns it via pulmonary veins. Meanwhile, the bronchial circulation provides oxygenated blood to the tissue of the lungs.
The lungs have very specific indentations from surrounding structures. The outer surface of the lungs faces the ribs, which make light indentations on them. The medial surfaces are even more interesting. We can see impressions of the heart, and the great vessels, which are the large vessels that bring blood to and from the heart.
The lungs can’t power the breathing process on their own, but only expand with the expansion of the thoracic cavity. Instead, muscles of respiration, primarily the diaphragm, drive breathing. The broad, concave base of the lungs sits on the convex surface of the diaphragm. The intercostal muscles pull the rib cage upwards. The respiratory muscles relax when you breath out. When you’ve breathed out, the volume of the air remaining in your lungs is called the functional residual capacity (FRC), which is around 2.5-3 L in an adult.
When you’re exercising, heavy breathing recruits accessory muscles in the neck and abdomen, pulling the ribcage down upon exhalation and further decreasing the volume of the thoracic cavity to around 1 L. The movement of the lungs encounters little friction thanks to the pleural sac. This sac also divides the lungs into lobes. The pleurae are two serous membranes, one lining the inner wall of the ribcage, and one resting on the surface of the lungs. Between these membranes is the pleural cavity, which contains pleural fluid for lubrication.
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Content:
Introduction 0:00
Lung Function: 0:54
Parts and Surfaces of the Lungs: 02:04
Hilum of the Lung: 03:01
Parts and Surfaces of the Lungs: 04:17
Margins of the Lungs: 4:33
Pulmonary Lobes 5:22
Segments of Right Lung: 6:31
Segments of Left Lung: 7:27
Pleura of the Lungs: 8:20
Mediastinum: 11:01
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Functions of the Lungs:
– Essential Organ of respiration
– Muscles of inspiration
○ Sternocleidomastoideus
○ External Intercostal Muscles
○ Diaphragm
– Muscles of expiration
○ Internal Intercostal Muscles
○ Abdominal Muscles
– Functional Unit of the Lungs
○ Alveolar Sacs (Sacculi Alveolares)
○ Exchanges oxygen with carbon dioxide
Parts and Surfaces of the Lungs:
– Apex of Lung (Apex Pulmonis)
– Ase of Lung (Basis Pulmonis)
– Costal Surface (Facies Costalis)
– Diaphragmatic Surface (Facies Diaphragmatica)
– Mediastinal Surface (Facies Mediastinalis)
– Hilum of Lung (Hilum Pulmonis)
– Pulmonary Ligament (Ligamentum Pulmonalis)
– Root of Lung (Radix Pulmonis)
– Right Lung Hilum: Highest Structure Bronchus, then Pulmonary Arteries then Pulmonary Veins
– Left Lung Hilum: Highest Structure Pulmonary Artery. Bronchus then Pulmonary Veins
– Mnemonic: BRIGHT IS RIGHT
– Interlobar Surface (Facies Iinterlobares)
Margins of the Lungs:
– Inferior Margin (Margo Inferior)
– Anterior Margin (Margo Anterior)
○ Cardiac Notch of Left Lung (Incisura Cardiaca Pulmonis Sinistri)
○ Lingula of Left Lung (Lingula Pulmonis)
Pulmonary Lobes:
– Oblique Fissure (Fissura Obliqua)
– Horizontal Fissure (Fissura Horizontalis)
– Superior Lobe (Lobus Superior)
– Middle Lobe (Lobus Medius)
– Inferior Lobe (Lobus Inferior)
Segments of Right Lung (10):
– Superior Lobe:
○ Apical Segment
○ Posterior Segment
○ Anterior Segment
– Middle Lobe
○ Lateral Segment
○ Medial Segment
– Inferior Lobe
○ Superior Segment
○ Basal Medial
○ Basal Anterior
○ Basal Lateral
○ Basal Posterior
Segments of Left Lung (8 or 9):
– Superior Lobe
○ Apicoposterior
○ Anterior Segment
○ Superior Linguar
○ Inferior Linguar
– Inferior Lobe
○ Superior Segment
○ Basal Anterior
○ Basal Lateral
○ Basal Posterior
○ Basal Medial
Pleura of the Lungs:
– Visceral Pleura (Pleura Visceralis)
– Parietal Pleura (Pleura Parietalis)
○ Costal Part
○ Diaphragmatic Part
○ Mediastinal Part
○ Pleural Part
– Pleural Cavity (Cavitas Pleuralis)
– Pleural Recesses
○ Costodiaphragmatic Recess (Recessus Costodiaphragmaticus)
○ Costomediastinal Recess (Recessus Costomediastinalis)
○ Vertebromediastinal Recess (Recessus Vertebromediastinalis)
○ Phrenicomediastinal Recess (Recessus Phrenicomediastinalis)
Mediastinum
– Superior Mediastinum (mediastinum superius)
– Inferior Mediastinum (mediastinum inferius)
○ Anterior Mediastinum
○ Middle Mediastinum
○ Posterior Mediastinum
Sources used in this video:
– Memorix Anatomy 2nd Edition by Hudák Radovan (Author), Kachlík David (Author), Volný Ondřej (Author)
– Biorender
– University notes and lectures
– Snell’s Clinical Anatomy 10th Edition
Anatomy of the Lungs
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