The bronchial lumen is longer and has a distal opening that allows it to be placed in either the right or the left main bronchus. The tracheal lumen is designed to be placed above the carina.

The right bronchus is slightly larger than the left one. Because of this, foreign objects breathed into the lungs often end up in the right bronchus. The bronchi are lined with the same type of ...

Part of the gas exchange system Function Bronchus The trachea splits into a left and right bronchus (plural: bronchi), each leads to a lung. Bronchiole Each bronchus splits again and again into ...

Your lungs have a system of tubes that carry oxygen in and out as you breathe. The windpipe divides into two tubes, the right bronchus and left bronchus. These split into smaller tubes called ...