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What does it mean when oxygen moves from the lungs into the bloodstream?
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Oxygen is moving by simple diffusion. It is going from a higher level of oxygen (air) to lower (blood).
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What does co2 mean in medical terms?
"CO2" in any terms is carbon dioxide. Medically, it is the gas taken out of the bloodstream by the lungs while oxygen is taken into the bloodstream by the lungs. In this case, CO2 is a chemical waste product of an animal.To a plant, though, CO2 is the compound that they live on, and oxygen is the waste product. So you could say that pla
What does displace oxygen mean?
Moves it out of area
What is oxygenated mean?
It simply means to add oxygen to something, as in oxygenated blood is filled with oxygen from the lungs
What function does the repiratory system perform?
Letting the gases to pass within them in order to ventilate the alveoli. Humidify the air intaken in order to protect the lungs from drying out. Cleanse the air from particulate matters between 5 and 10 micrometers, owing to a sticky mucus layer that constantly moves upward due to the beats of cilia on the epithelium that lines the inside of the air passages.
Does plasma carry oxygen?
When oxygen enters the bloodstream through the lungs it generally binds to red blood cells (more specifically the hemoglobin within red blood cells), which are carried along within the plasma. While some unbound oxygen may become diffused inside the plasma itself it is not the primary or intended mean of oxygen transport throughout the body. In short, plasma doesn't carry oxygen, but instead carries the cells that carry oxygen.
What is the major role of the respiratiory system?
The role of the respiratory system is the exchange of gases. This means that the lungs take oxygen into the blood in exchange for carbon dioxide removed from the blood. Note that exchange does not mean that oxygen is changed intocarbon dioxide. It simply means that oxygen is taken in at the same time as carbon dioxide is given out. The oxygen taken in is used by the body cells in the process of respiration: the release of energy from food. When food is "burned" with oxygen, carbon dioxide is produced which has to be removed from the body. See http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/body/pg000138.html
What organism transports oxygen?
The lungs take oxygen into the body and the blood transports oxygen throughout the body.
Where do red blood cells get oxygen?
If by that you mean where they get their own oxygen, then from nowhere because red blood cells do not need oxygen, they perform all reactions anaerobically.If you mean where they get it to give off for the rest of your body, then its from the lungs.
What organ in which the oxygen-carbon dioxide exchange takes place?
As occurring within the Lungs, these processes are called transpiration.
What carries oxygen and nutrient rich blood?
it depends where about you mean; the pulmonary veins, coming from the lungs, firstly pass just-oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart. after that the arteries (like the aorta) pass the highly oxygenated blood from the left side of the heart to the body parts. (this is most likely the answer you are looking for) when the organs have taken all the oxygen out of the blood and replaced it with deoxygenated blood. the deoxygenated blood moves back to the right side of the heart where it is pumped back to the lungs for reoxygenation!
Do all living things resperate?
If by breathing you mean inhaling oxygen, then no, because there are plenty of organisms that are anaerobic and does not require oxygen.
What organ pink-up oxygen in thd blood stream?
I think you mean picked up. It is the lungs.
