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Q: What coat cilia and alveolar surface?
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What keeps the surface between the air and the alveolar cells moist in the lung?

alveolar fluid


What causes intra alveolar-surface tension?

water


What determines lung compliance?

Alveolar surface tension


What percentage of the alveolar surface is covered with pulmonary capillaries?

99%


What are Hair like structures that move materials along the outer surface of the cell?

Cilia in eukaryotes and flagella in Protists and Bacteria.


What is function of cilia in gaseous exchange?

More often in the area of bronchi there is formation of viscous mucous going through which becomes at extreme level during the cold and cough as normally we experience during the winter times. But the main function of ciliated cell is to provide the more surface area to enzymes which are digesting or metabolizing the mucous continuously.This answer does not answer what the special function is lol


What is the total alveolar surface area in the lungs of human beings?

100m2


What is the function of the surface of fluid lining the alveolar?

The fluid lining the inner alveolar membrane is called surfactant. It helps reduce the surface tension in the alveoli, which prevents them from collapsing in on themselves every time we exhale.


How does a paramcium move?

by moving its cilia, with which its surface is covered


What are Short hairlike structures that protrude from the surface of a cell and are packed in tight rows called?

Cilia.


What is an alveolar bone?

An alveolar ridge is a ridge which forms the borders of the maxilla and mandible, and contains the alveoli of the teeth.


What are short hairlike projections on a cell surface?

Long and few - or one - are flagella, short and numerous are called cilia.