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bronchopulmonary segments
In the child, they are pink, but with age, they become
dark and mottled because of the inhalation of dust
particles
A blunt apex projects upward into the neck for about 1 in. (
cm) above the clavicle
It is here on the left lung that the cardiac notch is found
All the lymph from the lung leaves the hilum and drains
into the tracheobronchial nodes and then into the
bronchomediastinal lymph trunks
Nerve Supply
At the root of each lung is a pulmonary plexus composed of efferent
and afferent autonomic nerve fibers