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What is it called when oxygen moves from the lungs to the bloodstream?
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∙ 13y ago
diffusion - the natural movement of particles from high to low density. oxygen dissolves in a film of liquid water lining the alveoli (tiny air sacs in the lungs) and the wall of the alveoli and wall of the capillary (each 1 cell thick) into the blood in the capillary. the oxygen is moving from the high concentration of oxygen in the lung to the low concentration of oxygen in the blood. this low concentration is maintained in the blood since it continuously flows away and is replaced by oxygen poor blood. the high concentration of oxygen in the lungs is of course maintained by breathing in fresh air.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agoDiffusion.
Oxygen diffuses from a high concentration in the alveoli to the oxygen concentration of the pulmonary capillaries.
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∙ 9y agoOxygen moves from the lung into the bloodstream at the capillaries of the alveoli. This happens due to diffusion.
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∙ 13y agovia diffusion
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∙ 8y agoDiffusion
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∙ 13y ago+++Osmosis
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What is it call when oxygen moves from the lungs into the bloodstream?
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What is it called when oxygen moves froms the lung into the bloodstream?
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What does it mean when oxygen moves from the lungs into the bloodstream?
Oxygen is moving by simple diffusion. It is going from a higher level of oxygen (air) to lower (blood).
What is the substance that moves from the bloodstream to the air via the lungs?
deoxygenated blood
When the oxygen goes into the bloodstream it goes into arteries veins or capillaries?
Oxygen moves into the lungs to the alveoli in the lungs into capillaries into pulmonary veins to the heart then to arteries that go through the rest of the body.
When oxygen moves from the lungs into the bloodstream?
A protein called hemoglobin present in red blood cells is able to bind oxygen molecules. Capillaries surround the alveolar sacs in the lungs where oxygen diffuses into the blood where it is bound by hemoglobin. Now, the oxygen is in the blood.
Why does oxygen moves into lungs?
Inside the red blood cells, the iron has a great affinity for oxygen. It moves by passive diffusion from the alveoli in the lungs into the bloodstream where it binds to the iron groups in the haemoglobin in the red blood cells.
When a person inhales oxygen fills tiny air sacs in the person's lungs Next the oxygen moves from these air sacs into small blood vessels that line the lungs and then it moves into the bloodstream?
Yes. This what happens. The oxygenated blood goes to the heart and is pumped out via arteries and end up in the capillaries where the oxygen is exchanged with carbon dioxide and it moves into the body cells.
What is it called when the oxygen in your lungs moves from the air spaces from high concentration to low concentration?
breathing
What is it called when oxygen moves from a nerve cell into the bloodstream from a lower concentration to a higher concentration?
i don"t know is call sorry find it your selfs
What body system moves oxygen to the lungs?
respiratory system
What happens to the oxygen levels in the blood as it moves through the lungs?
the oxygen releases carbon dioxide
