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O2 enters the capillaries and ----- from the capillaries passes in to the lungs?

Carbon dioxide is produced as a waste product of respiration, and is taken in the bloodstream to the capillaries outside the lungs, where the CO2 diffuses into the alveoli of the lungs.


What is the gas that passes into the bloodstream through the capillaries of the lungs?

oxygen


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In the alveoli of the lungs, where it passes into the blood capillaries which surround them.


What is the body organ which oxygen passes through to capillaries?

The alveoli and capillaries in the lungs pass oxygen to the blood. Both have very thin walls, which allow the oxygen to pass from the alveoli to the blood. The capillaries then connect to larger blood vessels, called veins, which bring the oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.


If blood takes in oxygen and releases carbon dioxide in the lungs the blood passes through what?

The blood passes through tiny capillaries that lie in close proximity to the alveoli in the lungs. This is where the gas exchange takes place.


What enters the capillaries that passes through the lugns?

blood, at first it is deoxygenated but by the time it leaves the lungs it is full of dissolved oxygen


What is the substance that the capillaries absorb from the lungs?

The capillaries absorb oxygen at the lungs. This occurs near the alveoli.


Exchange of gases between alveolar air and pulmonary capillary blood?

Oxygen passes from the air sacs in the lungs to the blood in the capillaries, carbon dioxide passes the other way.


Oxygen passes into the capillaries that surround these sac?

Oxygen passes into the capillaries that surround the alveoli. The thin walls of the capillaries make this diffusion easier.


Oxygen diffuses into the capillaries of the lungs because there is a?

greater concentration of oxygen in the air sacs of the lungs than in the capillaries.


What passes from the lung into the capillaries?

Oxygen


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.