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Alveoli which are in your lungs
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What tiny air sac is surrounded by blood capillaries?
Alveoli which are in your lungs
What are tiny air sacs surrounded by capillaries?
Alveoli.
What are the tiny blood vessels that wrap around the air sacs?
Capillaries . The smallest of the blood vessels: capillaries.
The tiny air sacs in the lungs that take oxygen from the air and put it into the blood?
These tiny air sacs are called alveoli. These alveoli are surrounded by capilaries tiny blood vessells. These capilaries have holes that are to small for blood cells to escape but are big enogh for oxygen molecules to pass in to the blood stream and attach to the haemoglobin in your blood.
What are the tiny blood vessels covering an air sack called?
Capillaries
How are the lungs and the capillaries connected?
The lungs contain air sacs called alveoli which are surrounded by blood capillaries to allow gaseous exchange.
What are tiny air spaces in the lungs by blood capillaries?
Alveoli. Singular is alveolus.
What is the name of the organ that you use to breathe in oxygen?
the air goes into your lungs. In your lungs there are billions of tiny air sacs. Surrounding each air sac is a network of blood capillaries. The air sacs and the blood capillaries are separated by a thin membrane. Across this membrane the air sacs give the blood capillaries oxygen and they blood capillaries give the air sacs carbon dioxide. We breathe out this carbon dioxide!
Where in the lungs does diffusion take place and what gasses are diffused?
---------------------------- The exchange of gasses takes place across the Alveoli, which are air spaces surrounded by very small air sacs and have a rich supply of blood, because they are surrounded by capillaries. The lungs are made up of many alveoli which are the respiratory surface. Oxygen diffuses from the alveoli into the blood in the capillaries and carbon dioxide diffuses from the blood in the capillaries into the alveoli.
What happens to the blood as it flows through the capillaries in the lungs?
The CO2 or carbon dioxide is removed by the alveoli from the blood. The carbon dioxide is replaced with oxygen. The blood is then full of oxygen. Alveoli are tiny sacs in the lungs, surrounded by capillaries.
What is the pathway of air once it enters the bronchial tube?
the air enters the bronchioles, and into the aveoli, which are small, one cell-thick sacks of air. These sacks are surrounded by tiny capillaries, which is how your blood retrieves its oxygen. From here, the oxygenated blood is carried back to the heart through the pulmonary vein and pumped into your body.
What surrounds air that is drawn down through a series of tubes or tiny blood vessels in your lungs?
capillaries
