Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings (thesaurus)

Search from vocabulary

Concept information

Cardiovascular System > Blood-Air Barrier
Respiratory System > Lung > Pulmonary Alveoli > Blood-Air Barrier

Preferred term

Blood-Air Barrier  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • The barrier between capillary blood and alveolar air comprising the alveolar EPITHELIUM and capillary ENDOTHELIUM with their adherent BASEMENT MEMBRANE and EPITHELIAL CELL cytoplasm. PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE occurs across this membrane.

Entry terms

  • Air-Blood Barrier
  • Alveolocapillary Membrane

In other languages

  • French

  • Barrière air-sang
  • Barrière alvéolo-capillaire
  • Barrière sang-air
  • Membrane alvéolo-capillaire
  • Membrane alvéolocapillaire

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-L1ZX2FBJ-T

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 9/6/89, last modified 6/30/18