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Bronchi

Illustration showing trachea and bronchi

Your lungs draw air through your nose, mouth and throat into the tube-shaped trachea (windpipe), which passes into your chest cavity. At the level of your breastbone, your trachea splits into two primary bronchi, the left bronchus and the right bronchus. Each bronchus goes to the lung on the same side.
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