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What organ in which the oxygen-carbon dioxide exchange takes place?
The lungs are the organs where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place. This exchange occurs in the alveoli, tiny air sacs within the lungs where oxygen is absorbed into the bloodstream and carbon dioxide is released from the bloodstream.
What does the word aveoli mean?
Alveoli are tiny air sacs in the lungs where gas exchange takes place. Oxygen from the air we breathe passes into the bloodstream, while carbon dioxide from the bloodstream is released into the alveoli to be exhaled.
What does co2 mean in medical terms?
"CO2" in any terms is carbon dioxide. Medically, it is the gas taken out of the bloodstream by the lungs while oxygen is taken into the bloodstream by the lungs. In this case, CO2 is a chemical waste product of an animal.To a plant, though, CO2 is the compound that they live on, and oxygen is the waste product. So you could say that pla
What is the route that oxygen takes to get to the red blood cells?
If by that you mean where they get their own oxygen, then from nowhere because red blood cells do not need oxygen, they perform all reactions anaerobically.If you mean where they get it to give off for the rest of your body, then its from the lungs.
What happens to the air that is inhaled?
When you inhale, air enters your respiratory system through your nose and/or mouth, travels down your windpipe, and into your lungs. In the lungs, the oxygen from the air is absorbed into the bloodstream, while carbon dioxide is released from the bloodstream into the lungs to be exhaled out of the body.
What is oxygenated mean?
It simply means to add oxygen to something, as in oxygenated blood is filled with oxygen from the lungs
Where does breathing take place?
From my physiology class...if you mean the gas exchange (CO2-O2), it occurs at the alveoli level. These are part of the bronchioles which are branches of the bronchi which are branches of the trachea. Alveolis are located within the lungs. Breathing takes place in many areas. All of the areas of entry where oxygen enters the body is involved such as the mouth and nasal passages, the trachea, the bronchi, the lungs, even the blood stream because that is where the actual exchange of these gases occur.
Where do red blood cells get oxygen?
If by that you mean where they get their own oxygen, then from nowhere because red blood cells do not need oxygen, they perform all reactions anaerobically.If you mean where they get it to give off for the rest of your body, then its from the lungs.
What function does the repiratory system perform?
Letting the gases to pass within them in order to ventilate the alveoli. Humidify the air intaken in order to protect the lungs from drying out. Cleanse the air from particulate matters between 5 and 10 micrometers, owing to a sticky mucus layer that constantly moves upward due to the beats of cilia on the epithelium that lines the inside of the air passages.
What organism transports oxygen?
The lungs take oxygen into the body and the blood transports oxygen throughout the body.
Does plasma carry oxygen?
When oxygen enters the bloodstream through the lungs it generally binds to red blood cells (more specifically the hemoglobin within red blood cells), which are carried along within the plasma. While some unbound oxygen may become diffused inside the plasma itself it is not the primary or intended mean of oxygen transport throughout the body. In short, plasma doesn't carry oxygen, but instead carries the cells that carry oxygen.
What is the major role of the respiratiory system?
The role of the respiratory system is the exchange of gases. This means that the lungs take oxygen into the blood in exchange for carbon dioxide removed from the blood. Note that exchange does not mean that oxygen is changed intocarbon dioxide. It simply means that oxygen is taken in at the same time as carbon dioxide is given out. The oxygen taken in is used by the body cells in the process of respiration: the release of energy from food. When food is "burned" with oxygen, carbon dioxide is produced which has to be removed from the body. See http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/body/pg000138.html
