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Do lungs clean the blood

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Anonymous

10y ago
Updated: 5/9/2022

The lungs do not clean dirty blood, although they do allow excess carbon dioxide to escape into the air. Dirty blood is filtered by the kidneys, not the lungs.

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Do the lungs clean dirty blood?

The lungs do not clean dirty blood, although they do allow excess carbon dioxide to escape into the air. Dirty blood is filtered by the kidneys, not the lungs.


Is the blood in the heart clean?

blood is filtered in the kidney and infact, lungs (CO2)


Explain why the blood flowing to your lung is different from those are flowing out?

Answer:Blood flowing to your lungs is full of carbon dioxide, which gets exchanged in your lungs and the blood flowing out of your lungs is clean/purified with oxygen in it.


What are the two jobs of the heart-lung?

to clean your blood and transport it to your lungs.....your welcome!(:


How do lungs self clean?

Lungs generally don't clean themselves. If you are a smoker and have tar in your lungs, you will NEVER get rid of it, it will only get worse. But you clean your lungs by coughing. This gets rid of any foreign material. If you have blood in your lungs, the blood will be absorbed into your body again, but if will never be cleaned completely. Also, if you have swallowed something and it has gone to your lungs accidentally, you may go to a doctor will will give you anti-biotics so that the food wont spoil and you prevent an infection. Why what happened?


What are cilia lungs?

(not an accurate awnser.more research into the question will be needed) the hairs on our lungs cells are called cillia.one of their purposes is to clean the lungs and keep the blood flowing in and out of your lungs


How does blood entering the lungs differ from blood leaving the lungs?

The blood leaving the lungs is loaded with oxygen, while blood entering the lungs is about to get oxygen from the respiratory system.


Clean filtered blood is returned to circulation through the?

Blood is filtered by kidneys, lymphatic vessels etc and lastly oxygenated by the lungs. Once passed through the lungs passes into the heart by the vena cava and the heart pumps the blood back out via the aorta to the rest of the body.


One function of the heart is to what blood to the lungs?

Answer Pump blood to the lungs.


How does blood leaving the lungs differ from the blood entering the lungs?

Blood coming from the lungs has lower pressure while that from the heart has higher pressure. Blood coming from the lungs also has higher oxygen content and lower carbon dioxide content compared to that coming from the heart.


What blood vessel carries blood to the lungs?

The pulmonary arteries carry blood to the lungs to be oxygenated.


If there is internal bleeding to the lungs will the patient cough up blood?

If there is blood in the lungs... well, we breath air from our lungs, we cough and what is in our lungs comes out. We usually cough due to something unknown being in our lungs and our lungs forcing it out. So, yes when we cough and there is blood in our lungs, blood will come out. Now if we are to breath in blood for some unknown stupid reason, we will cough it out. So yes, if there is internal bleeding in our lungs, we will cough up blood.