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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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What is the most proximal part of the air distribution system that no longer contains cartilage?
Bronchioles
What factors affect compressor capacity?
pressure drop in inlet filters and poor maintenance of equipment
What are the illness that can effect the respiratory system and lungs?
Bronchitis, pneumonia, COPD, cancer,
How does lung cancer affect the respiratory system?
Lung cancer affects the respiratory system by first making a tumor. (Obviously, we know this.) After the tumor, the cancer begins spreading. It makes a person have shallow breathing, along with the color or volume of your sputum (or more commonly known as phlegm). Your lungs will become a weird blackish color. It will also cause a person to have frequent pains in your chest, near the sternum, along with shoulder pain and back pain. You will also have harsh coughing fits. (I hope this is enough information! :D)
What happens to your lungs at high altitudes?
at high altitude you have to breath harder which means you have to breath out more which reduces the amount of acid in the blood. after a few days your kidneys can restore their HP
The group of organs and tissues that exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide in the lungs is the?
organ system
ventilator
What is the disease called when you exhale but your lungs doesn't contract?
This disease is called emphysema. This happens when you breath out and your lungs don't contract like they normally do.
also called breast carcinoma-associated antigen, is used as a marker for breast cancer. Eighty percent of women with breast cancer have an increased CA 27-29 level.
What does bulky hilum in your left lung mean?
The hilum is a triangular depression where blood vessels or nerves enter an organ. A bulky hilum in the left lung could indicate enlarged nodes or lyphoma.
How does a small lung capacity affect life?
Having a small lung capacity can affect your every day life, but usally without any harmfull or negative side affects. Usally people with a smaller lung capacity will naturally have a higher heart rate, this is due to the lack of oxygen you get from each breath needed for your mitocondria to produce ATP. Long distance runners may actually benifit from a smaller lung capacity, because of the shorter quciker breaths keep a consistant flow of oxygen running through out the body. One draw back to this condition is that you will be able to hold your breath not nearly as long as someone who has a greater lung capacity.
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Can your lungs cover tennis court?
It's commonly said that if you were able to extract all 300 million (or so) of the lungs' alveoli (the smallest units of gas exchange), unravel each so it formed a flat piece of tissue, then lay each alveolus down side by side, they would cover an entire tennis court. Has this ever been done? Heck no. But approximations have been made, and it seems like this is relatively correct.
What are the organelles of a cancer cell?
Probably same as a regular cell, depending on the type of cancer. Cancerous cells are basically mutated cells that don't stop reproducing, hence forming a tumor. The organelles should be the same.
What are air sacs in the lungs also called?
There should never be "air bubbles" in the lungs. This would be an abnormal finding AND a life and death emergency. An air bubble that travels in the blood stream to the heart, lungs, or brain is an air embolism.
IF however you mean the sacs in the lungs that exchange (through the hemoglobin on red blood cells) carbon dioxide for oxygen, those grape-like structures are called aveoli. Aveoli are NOT "air bubbles" though. Numerous small blood vessels cover the outside of each aveoli. The Hgb releases oxygen to the aveoli; the aveoli then pass carbon dioxide back to the Hgb. The Hgb on the red blood cells cannot pick up the O2, until the Hgb lets go of the CO2. Because the aveoli are round and there are many of them, they have high surface area. One breath supplies enough O2 while exhaling the CO2.
Where in the pigs body are the lungs located?
They are located in the thoracic cavity, just like in humans.
Thank You Judy Olmsted! I really appreciate the answer.
What causes static compliance in the lungs to decrease?
well .. the cause is if there is no air movement the Cst will decrease .
