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Heavy smoking causes the cilia to die off. Which means the lungs are not cleaned properly.

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When does cilia do not resume proper function after smoking?

Your cilia do not get affected by the occasional smoking. Cilia are affected in chronic smokers. But then there is probably nothing like occasional smoking. You are either a chronic smoker or nonsmoker. Smoking two cigarettes can make you addicted to smoking. Your cilia get damaged by chronic smoking. The pseudstratified ciliated epithelium is eventually replaced by stratified squamous epithelim in case of the chronic smokers. Such type of change is called as metaplasia. If you stop the smoking the original epithelium is resumed eventually.


Short hairlike appendage?

Short, hair like appendages help in fastening to mucous membranes. These numerous appendages are called fimbriae. Cilia are another short, hair like appendage that extends from living cell surfaces.


What are short hairlike projections on a cell surface?

Short hairlike projections on a cell surface are called cilia. Cilia are specialized structures that act like tiny antennas, helping cells to sense their surroundings and move substances across the cell surface.


What three organelles enable eukaryotic cells to move?

The three organelles are cilia, flagella, and pseudopods. Cilia and flagella are structures that extend from the cell surface and help in cell motility, while pseudopods are temporary projections of the cell membrane used for movement in certain cell types.


What structure is at the base of cilia?

The basal body is the structure at the base of cilia. It is a cylindrical structure that anchors the cilia to the cell and plays a role in organizing the microtubules that make up the cilia.

Related Questions

Cigarette smoking paralizes small cell extensions that beat to create an upward current what are these extensions called?

cilia


Why does tobacco smoke imobilize cilia?

The heat from smoking is too high for the cilia to live. The heat actually burns the cilia and kills the cell.


Does cilia have a cell?

Cilia does not have any form of a cell. It is merely an organelle of a cell.


What is an example of a disease in which cilia are damaged?

Smoking.


When does cilia do not resume proper function after smoking?

Your cilia do not get affected by the occasional smoking. Cilia are affected in chronic smokers. But then there is probably nothing like occasional smoking. You are either a chronic smoker or nonsmoker. Smoking two cigarettes can make you addicted to smoking. Your cilia get damaged by chronic smoking. The pseudstratified ciliated epithelium is eventually replaced by stratified squamous epithelim in case of the chronic smokers. Such type of change is called as metaplasia. If you stop the smoking the original epithelium is resumed eventually.


What type of cell is the cilia a plant cell or animal cell?

it is in a plant cell


Cilia and flagella are cell surfaces structed adapted from what?

Eukaryotic cilia and flagella are cell surfaceprojections familiar to ....


What cell has cilia in it?

Many bacterias and some eukaryotic cells have cilia.


What structures allow for cell movement?

Cilia and flagella


What cell has cilia that can move things?

Palisade cell


What do cilia do for a plant cell?

Helps the cell move.


How are epithelial cell adapted for absorption of material?

cilia cilia is wrong. The correct answer is microvilli. cilia is more for movement