Front | Superficial pulmonary plexus |
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Back | Structure: a series of lympathic vessels located on the outer surface of the lung just deep to the visceral pleura (visible as dark lines) Function: trapping particulate matter that was inhaled into the lungs and ingested by macrophages in the connective tissue spaces between bronchopulmonary segments and subsegments. |
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