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how does the exchange of gasses between the aveoli and blood happen
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What is the primary function of the aveoli?
The alveoli are the site of carbon dioxide and oxygen exchange between the air and the blood.
Name the slippy secretion that keep the alveolar walls from sticking together?
Pulmany Surfactants. This is accomplished by lowering the surface tension in the aveoli. When the surface tension in the aveoli is decreased it allows for easier reinhilation of the aveoli because there is less work required to do reinflate them.
What is the organ made up of masses of aveoli?
The lungs.
What are the squamous pneumocytes?
Squamous pneumocytes are epithelial cells that line the inside of the aveoli, the tiny sacs in the lungs that allow for gas exchange between air and the blood.
What is the function of the aveoli duct?
To get inhaled air to the alveoi for gas exchange
What is exchanged between the aveoli and the capilarries?
oxygen.
What absorbes oxygen from the air?
the aveoli in the Lungs
What happens to the tissue when you put it in water?
Normal lung tissue floats because of all the aveoli (tiny air pockets).
Why do the walls of the capillaries and aveoli need to be thin?
The walls of alveoli are thin to allow the exchange of gases (Co2 and O2) between blood capillaries and the aveoli in the lungs.
Is the aveoli an organ?
no cause aveoli are little air sacks in the lungs. they are not an organ they are in an organ.
What is the primary function of the aveoli?
The alveoli are the site of carbon dioxide and oxygen exchange between the air and the blood.
What happens to the carbon dioxide in the blood when it flows through the capillares in the aveoli?
CO2 diffuses from the blood to the alveoli and the exhalation removes the CO2 from the body.
Which two gases are exchanged in the aveoli?
At the aveoli, the blood transfers CO2 and the hemoglobin on red blood cells picks up 02.
Do veins surround aveoli?
no
Where is the aveoli located?
in the lungs
Is there osmosis for aveoli of lungs?
What is filtration
What are millions in the lungs?
alveoli
