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Surfactant reduces the surface tension within in your lungs, your alveoli have a wet surface and if surfactant were not present they would stick together causing a difficulty in expanding your thoracic cavity-so you wouldn't be able to breath without surfactant.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoSurfactant is important because it forms a superficial coating over the thin layer of water coating the alveolar surface, it reduces surface tension which results from the attraction between water molecules.
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Reduces the surface tension of the fluid in the alveoli?
surfactant
The chemical on the inside of the alveoli that allows it to keep its round shape is?
the surfactant
How are septal cells involved in keeping alveoli from collapsing?
They produce surfactant, a substance that reduces surface tension. Alveoli are very small, only 80 nanometers wide, and are flat. Therefore they have a tendency to curl up. The surfactant reduces this tendency, hence keeps the alveoli from collapsing.
What would in surfactant absence?
In the event of surfactant absence in the lungs they would collapse and pulminary functioning would be reduced dramatically. Surfactants are critical in maintaining proper lung function by reducing surface tension and making it easier to breathe.
What cells secrete surfactant that reduces the tendency for pulmonary alveoli to collapse?
Type 2 Alveolar cells
Alveoli are coated by a thin film of?
surfactant
The role of surfactant in relation to water?
Surfactant is used in the lungs to break water tension within the alveoli. Without it, the alveoli will collapse and you will suffocate and die.
How are surfactant cella involved with keeping the alveoli from callapsing?
The surfactant doesn't allow the sides of the alveoli form sticking together. Infants that are born very early don't make surfactant and so have many problems.
What is the fluid that lines the alveoli is produced by?
what is the name of the liquid layer that lines the alveoli
Reduces the surface tension of the fluid in the alveoli?
surfactant
What phospholipid decreases the surface tension of the alveoli?
surfactant
Breathing properly requires the presence of what compound that affects surface tension of alveoli in the lungs?
The correct answer is Surfactant
What coats the inside of the alveoli to keep them open?
pericadium
What is the name of the lipid substance that coats the alveoli surface?
Surfactant
What is the function of type 2 alveoli walls?
function of type 2 alveoli cells is to secrete surfactant.
The chemical on the inside of the alveoli that allows it to keep its round shape is?
the surfactant
What keep the alveoli from collapsing?
Alveoli does not collapse because lungs always have a residual volume which prevents the alveoli to collapse.
