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The trachea is composed of about 20 rings of tough cartilage. The back part of each ring is made of muscle and connective tissue. Moist, smooth tissue called mucosa lines the inside of the trachea. The trachea widens and lengthens slightly with each breath in, returning to its resting size with each breath out.
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Attacks the airways and lungs?
Choking Agents
What is the system involves the lungs and airways?
respiratory
How can asthma affect the cells?
Asthma affects the airways of the lungs by causing inflammation, swelling, and increased mucus production. This can lead to the narrowing of the airways, making it difficult for air to flow in and out of the lungs, resulting in symptoms like wheezing, shortness of breath, and coughing.
Does Asthma cause fluid in the lungs?
It can cause a buildup of phlegm and mucus in the airways, but not in the lungs.
What are the main airways that reach into the lungs?
Trachea
What does bronchi mean in science?
larger airways in the lungs
How many airways does your lungs contain?
The lungs contain approximately 23 generations of airways, starting from the trachea and branching into progressively smaller bronchi and bronchioles. In total, there are about 300,000 to 500,000 individual airways, which include both the large bronchi and the smaller terminal and respiratory bronchioles. These airways facilitate the movement of air in and out of the lungs, leading to the alveoli where gas exchange occurs.
Why smokers feel breathless?
Cigarettes, over time, hurt the lungs and constrict the airways to the lungs, therefore, air has to push through the airways, making a breathless feeling to the smoker
How many kilometres of airways bring air in and out of the lungs?
A lot.
What are the three main parts of the lungs?
The three main parts of the lungs are the bronchi (airways that carry air in and out of the lungs), the bronchioles (smaller airways that branch off from the bronchi), and the alveoli (tiny air sacs where gas exchange takes place).
Does Asthma is a tightening of the airways of the lungs that results from either undue inflammation of the lining of the airways to specific triggering factors?
true
What are the airways branching off into the lungs called?
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