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The mucociliary elevator is the means by which particles trapped in the mucus of the lungs (produced by goblet cells) is transported out of the lungs, up the trachea, and into the pharynx where it is then swallowed. Cilia on the cells lining the respiratory tract move back and forth to move the mucus.

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