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What is the difference of pressure between the atmosphere and pressure in the lungs?
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∙ 15y ago
Not much. You create slight changes in pressure when you breathe, but it's almost insignificant.
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How is intrapleural pressure maintained?
Intrapleural pressure is the pressure difference between the lungs and the pleural cavity of the lungs.
Breathing occurs because of air pressure differences between the lungs and the?
Atmosphere
What is the speed of breathing air?
The speed of breathing air is not fixed. It depends on the size of the hole being breathed through and the pressure difference between the lungs and the atmosphere.
What the thing that cause inhalation?
As your diaphragm or intercoastal muscles contract the size of the lungs increases. This creates a pressure difference between your lungs and the surrounding atmosphere. By increasing the size of the lungs you create a low pressure environment in the lungs by expanding the same amount of gas to a larger area. this pressure difference doesn't have to be much 1mmhg is more then enough, the main thing is just that you need a difference in preasure. Air flows from high preasure to low preasure, so by decreasing the preasure in the lungs air flows into the lungs. as you breath out you make the lungs smaller by relaxing the muscles and diaphragm, making the volume in the lungs decrease, thus increasing the preasure and moving the air from inside the lungs out to the surrounding atmosphere.
What occurs when the air pressure in the lungs is higher than in the atmosphere?
The air comes out of the lungs.
When you inhale does pressure decrease inside or increase?
The act of inhaling is to create low pressure in the lungs, causing the air in the atmosphere to rush in as it is moving from a higher pressure (outside in the atmosphere) to the lower pressure (created in the lungs). However the fact that air does move into the lungs means that there is no net change in pressure.
Under what condition does air flow goes in to the lungs?
when pressure inside the lungs is lower then outer atmosphere
What keeps the lungs from collapsing when the airways are open to the atmosphere?
Transpulmonary pressure
What is the pressure difference between the external air and the pleural cavity when inhalation just begins?
In inspiration, intrapulmonary pressure drops 3mm/Hg below atmospheric pressure and air flows into the lungs.
What determines in which direction carbon dioxide and oxygen will diffuse in the lungs?
pressure difference between carbon dioxide and oxygen level between pulmonary artery and alveolar space
Why does air rush into the lungs during the process of breathing?
Air enters the lungs because the pressure in the atmosphere is greater than the pressure in the lungs. Lung pressure is lowered by increasing the volume of the lungs. This is achieved by lowering the diaphragm and raising the rib cage.
Why does the lung collapse if intrapleural pressure is not maintain?
Inspiration happens when the pressure inside the lungs is lower than the atmospheric pressure (outside) and air rushes into the lungs. Expiration is when the air inside the lungs is higher than the atmospheric pressure and the air rushes out of the lungs. If the intrapleural pressure (pressure within the pleura of the lungs) isn't maintained then the pressure in the lungs can't differentiate between inspiration and expiration and so the lung collapses.
