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Lungs
Lungs are a pair of elastic and spongy organs that help the body breathe. They are present inside the rib cage in thoracic cavity of humans.
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Do girls have bigger lungs than girl?
Yes. Lung capacity is a function of the volume of space enclosed by the rib cage, which is essential to the lungs' ability to inflate. Boys have larger frames, and therefore tend to have larger rib cages.
Which barriers must and cross to pass between air and blood inside lungs?
epithelial cell, capillary wall, and extracellular fluid
One of these go to each lungs?
Bronchioles.
Bronchi, actually. Bronchioles are smaller and more numerous.
If you are dead can you get water in your lungs?
you cant. when a person drowns to death the reason their is water in the lungs is becaus after so long of holding your breath you instinctivly gasp for air due to lack of oxygen to the brain and intake a bunch of water in the process which will make you choke and just suck up even more water untill eventually the lungs become waterlogged and are unable to send oxygen to the rest of the body(not that their was really any there for then to send, but its just the way the body works) when a person drowns their will also be water then the sinus as well which will carry it to the brain and can drown the brain cutting off activity. hope this helps :)
If you get a small amount of water in your lungs will it drain out?
Yes, so to speak.
And no. A very small amount can leave, but not necessarily by "drain[ing] out."
Actually, with a small amount of water, you will either cough it out, breathe it out as water vapor, or it might be absorbed into the parenchyma (tissue) of the lung. In healthy individuals, this is usually the case with no sequelae (bad things happening later, like pneumonia). We breathe in water in the air (humidity) all the time with no problems, in fact our lungs do not function as well in drier air and can even become irritated in such environments.
Larger amounts of water of course can overwhelm and interfere with the gas (oxygen) exchange that is happening between the lung tissue and the air you breathe in. This is known as asphyxiation (suffocation, lack of oxygen) or drowning (suffocation due to liquid in the lungs). However, with small amounts, like a child coming up from a swimming pool choking or taking a drink that "goes down the wrong pipe" your body will taking care of removing the offending liquid from your lungs by whatever means necessary.
Water is generally harmless, though other beverages may be harmful (soda pop can can cause damage related to its acidity, coffee can cause damage related to its hot temperature, etc), and can cause something as minor as a cough for a few minutes to severe aspiration pneumonia (life-threatening infection in the lungs caused by breathing in ingested liquids, phlegm, vomit, etc).
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Does your lung holds more air than your left lung?
A natural human pair of lungs have the small right lung and the larger left lung to allow room for the heart.
So to answer your question your left lung will hold more.
What percentage of lung capacity does the average person use while at rest?
total lung capacity of human body 6000cc normal human being uses 300cc to 500cc only
What does Vasculitis of the lungs do?
Vasculitis of the complex network of blood vessels throughout the lungs can result in severe shortness of breath, cough, chest pain, and wheezing
How does an Incentive spirometry improve lung function?
Using a spirometry to breath will improve lung function by inflating the alveoli within the lungs. This increases air flow and reduces any fluid build up thus helping the lungs to function better.
What disease in which the trachea and bronchi swell you and stimulates suffocation?
Asthma is the disease that affects the trachea and bronchi and causes them to swell and stimulates suffocation. Symptoms of asthma can include wheezing, shortness of breath, and coughing.
How does the lobe of the right lung fight off bacterium?
The human body fights off bacteria in two ways. First, the friendly bacteria that live inside your body kill off the invaders. Second, failing that, white blood cells (leukocytes) -- specifically Neutrophils -- step in and kill the invaders, taking their bodies to your colon after neutralization.
The problem is, in order for either of these processes to work, both healthy bacteria and leukocytes need a fluid to move about in. When it comes to your lungs, fluids are bad (pneumonia). Ideally, once the bacterial infection is eradicated, the body will expel the fluid and the lungs will return to normal function.
Modern medicine often dictates that antibiotics is the appropriate coarse of action in events like this. However, this should be reserved only for cases where death of the patient is imminent. This is because in addition to killing the bad bacterial invaders (pathogens) the antibiotics also kill the healthy bacteria that make up your immune system. This compromises your immune system and if the pathogens are immune to the antibiotics -- which is becoming more and more common -- this course could cause prolonged illness or even death.
Ideally, a body with a healthy diet and an adequate supply of vitamin C will heal itself in due course. Since not having a healthy diet with an adequate supply of vitamin C was probably what made the person sick in the first place, ideally that should be the first place to start when looking at fighting off an infection.
Why do runners inhale pure oxygen after a marathon?
After a marathon there is an oxygen deficit in your body. Your muscles have obtained energy through a process called lactic acid fermentation, which does not use oxygen but is less efficient than aerobic respiration. It also causes a buildup of lactic acid, which your body gets rid of using oxygen. Supplying pure oxygen allows your body to get that oxygen faster.
A protective reflex stimulated by foreign material in the trachea or bronchi is the?
This is called the gagging or the coughing reflex
Once diagnosed with HIV what is a patient's prognosis?
This is probably the first question that anyone who is diagnosed HIV-positive will want to ask .. and the honest answer is that, because there are so many variables, it can be very difficult to predict. The first thing to make clear is that the general prognosis has imporved dramatically since the first AIDS cases were diagnosed in the early 1980s, when most patients would die within a few months; but this it is very often that image of how it was in the 1980s that lingers on in peoples perceptions of what being HIV-positive means. Two important advances have changed the outlook: # The discovery that AIDS was caused by HIV (along with the knowledge that it generally takes very many years for HIV to devlop into AIDS and understaning of how to treat the individual AIDS-defining illnesses). # The development and introduction HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy). Today the situation is that, provided the infected person receives effective anti-HIV treatment before the immune system has been severely damaged - and that a person takes their drugs properly - then they could live a more or less normal life span, in more or less good health. Research into the prognosis of people starting treatment for the first time (which can be many years after diagnosis) indicates that the risk of becoming very ill or dying because of HIV within the next three years is linked to five key factors: * having a CD4 count below 200 * having a viral load above 100,000 at the time of starting treatment * being aged over 50 * being an injecting drug user * having had a prior AIDS-defining illness It is for this reason that those approaching 50 will generally be advised to consider an earlier start to treatment than would normally be the case. It is however important to note that, even with the best available medical care, effective treatment involves more that just taking a few pills every day .. it involves new routines / habits, a great deal of commonsense and some major lifestyle adjustments. It is not an easy option and it is not a cause for any complacency in taking precations to avoid getting infected. The prognosis for people with little or no access to specialist HIV services or health care is much less optimistic, with HIV usually causing illness and death within five to ten years. However, even where the relatively costly HIV drugs are not available, the use of cheaper treatments for infections such as TB and PCP can considerably improve life expectancy and quality of life.
The process by which oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged between lungs and the environment is?
The Process of gas exchange is called
Respiration
Explain you the functions of lungs in human body?
they supply oxygen to red blood cells, which in turn supplies oxygen to your muscles and brain...which are required to live.
