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What is the medical term meaning food or liquid entering the lungs?
Aspiration is the medical term meaning food or liquid entering the lungs.
What fills your lungs when you have pneumonia?
Water and the membrane liquid that surrounds your lungs gets into your lungs. blood, pus, mucus, etc.
Does lungs absorb food and liquid that goes down into lungs?
No. Food and liquids should not go down into the lungs. That is why one coughs excessively when food or liquid "goes down the wrong tube." Aspiration is the term for breathing food or liquid into the lungs, and frequently causes a severe pneumonitis and may result in pneumonia.
3000 cc of liquid was removed from my lungs. How much is that?
3000 cc is equivalent to 3 liters of liquid removed from your lungs.
Why hole in heart keep coughing?
When the heart is poor, the lungs are often also affected. If the lungs don't work as they should, liquid may seep into them. Coughing is how the body tries to get rid of the unwanted liquid in the lungs.
What blood gets from the lungs?
liquid part of the body
What is the name of the liquid found in the lining of the lungs?
Surfactant
Do the lungs make amniotic fluid?
The lungs also produce liquid that becomes part of the amniotic fluid
Can liquid in lungs freeze?
Yes, if you somehow manage to breathe liquid nitrogen or some other refrigerant.
The functions of the pleural membrane?
The function of the pleural membrane is to reduce friction in the lungs by creating a liquid to coat the inside of the lungs
Can you give me examples of harmful liquids?
every liquid can be harmful as you can easily drown as your lungs wll fill with this liquid
What are some of the ways someone can aspirate liquid into their lungs?
Aspiration occurs when someone breathes foreign material such as food, drinks, or vomit into the airways leading to the lungs or all the way to the lungs. One can aspirate liquid into the lungs because of being less alert due to drugs, having swallowing problems, or having a poor gag reflex.
