Region Nasal vestibule Nasal cavity: respiratory Nasal cavity: olfactory Nasopharynx

Support Hyaline cartilage Hyaline cartilage and bone Bone

Glands

Epithelium

Cell Types

Additional Features Vibrissae

Extrapulmonary Conducting Division Sebaceous and Stratified squamous Epidermal sweat glands keratinized Seromucous glands Respiratory

Basal, goblet, ciliated, Erectile-like tissue brush, serous, and DNES Olfactory, sustentacular, and basal Olfactory vesicle

Bowman's Olfactory glands (serous) Seromucous glands Respiratory

Skeletal muscle

Basal, goblet, ciliated, Pharyngeal tonsils and brush, serous, and eustachian tubes DNES

Larynx

Hyaline and elastic Mucous and cartilages seromucous glands Hyaline cartilage Mucous and and dense, irregular, seromucous collagenous, glands connective tissue Hyaline cartilage Seromucous and smooth muscle glands

Respiratory Basal, goblet, ciliated, Epiglottis, vocal folds, stratified squamous brush, serous, and and vestibular folds nonkeratinized DNES Respiratory Basal, goblet, ciliated, C-rings and trachealis brush, serous, and muscle (smooth muscle) DNES in adventitia

Trachea and primary bronchi

Intrapulmonary Conducting Division Secondary (intrapulmonary) bronchi (Primary) bronchioles Respiratory Basal, goblet, ciliated, Plates of hyaline brush, serous, and cartilage and two ribbons DNES of helically oriented smooth muscle

Smooth muscle

No glands

Simple columnar to Ciliated cells and Less than 1 mm in simple cuboidal Clara cells (and diameter; supply air to occasional goblet cells lobules; two ribbons of in larger bronchioles) helically oriented smooth muscle Simple cuboidal Some ciliated cells Less than 0.5 mm in and many Clara cells diameter; supply air to (no goblet cells) lung acini; some smooth

Terminal bronchioles

Smooth muscle

No glands

muscle Respiratory Division Respiratory bronchioles Some smooth No glands muscle and collagen fibers Type III collagen No glands (reticular) fibers and smooth muscle sphincters of alveoli Type III collagen and elastic fibers Type III collagen and elastic fibers No glands No glands Simple cuboidal and Some ciliated cuboidal Alveoli in walls; alveoli highly attenuated cells, Clara cells, and have smooth muscle simple squamous types I and II sphincters in their pneumocytes openings Highly attenuated simple squamous Type I and type II pneumocytes of alveoli Type I and type II pneumocytes Type I and type II pneumocytes No walls of their own; only a linear sequence of alveoli Clusters of alveoli 200 m in diameter; have alveolar macrophages

Alveolar ducts

Alveolar sacs Alveoli

Highly attenuated simple squamous Highly attenuated simple squamous