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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 something besides black lung that is caused by coal dust in the lungs?
Lung cancer rates are significantly increased in anyone who breathes in particulate, like coal dust, for a long period of time.
Type 1 alveolar cells
What causes your lungs to pull in air from the atmosphere?
By expanding them, you create a vacuum inside them; given a portal (your mouth, nose), the vacuum will pull the ambient air in, just as a vacuum cleaner pulls things inside by creating a vacuum.
Does the relaxation of the diaphragm causes a slight vacuum the lungs?
No! When you inhale it does. So contraction not relaxation.
What are the hair like structures that are known as the street sweepers of the lungs called?
The hair-like structures found in the lungs are known as cilia, specifically motile cilia. There are other forms of cilia as well, for example non-motile cilia can be found in other organ systems, and as organelles on many cells in the body.
What complications of the lung may develop from Marfan syndrome?
Some patients with Marfan develop cystic disease of the lungs or recurrent spontaneous pneumothorax, which is a condition in which air accumulates in the space around the lungs. Many will also eventually develop emphysema.
How risky is it for a cancer patient to have an orchiectomy?
Orchiectomy by itself has a very low rate of morbidity and mortality. Patients who are having an orchiectomy as part of cancer therapy have a higher risk of dying from the cancer than from testicular surgery.
What are the causes of laryngeal cancer?
The development of dysplasia is strongly linked to life-long habits of smoking and heavy use of alcohol. The more a person smokes, the greater the risk of developing laryngeal cancer.
What is block resection in cancer surgery?
Block resection means taking the entire specimen out as a single piece. "No touch" means that only the normal tissue removed with specimen is handled; the cancer itself is never touched.
What impact does cancer have on the leakage of peritoneal fluid?
Any cancer that begins in or spreads to the abdomen can leak fluid.
What are airbags in your lungs for?
the airbags in the lungs are for transferring oxygen into the capilliaries
Can a person live with one lung who has tuberculosis?
no it is not possible that an person can live with out one lung
Does asthma make your lungs stronger?
No asthma makes your lungs weaker-the worse your asthma the weaker your lungs.
Atelectasis is the collapse of part or all of a lung by blockage of the air passages or by very shallow breathing(atel means incomplete, and-ectasis means stretching or enlargement)
COPD - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases
is a lung disease in which it is hard to breath. In this condition, damage to the bronchi partially obstructs them, making it difficult to get air in and out.
Perhaps you mean the hilum? It is the opening of the lung where the main bronchi (airway) enter the lung together with blood vessels, lymph vessels and nerves.
What cleans air and channels it in our lungs?
cillliated epillithial cells or cillia for short, they clean dust and mucus from our lungs
Does cherry ripe give you cancer?
It can increase the risk of cancer, due to some carcinogens that are present in cherry ripes. Although from memory extensive studies have not been done on it.
What medication dries up fluid on the lung?
Talc is a medication drug that closes and stops leakage from lungs. Doctors use it to control fluid in the lung,
Is pericarditis an inflammation of the lungs?
No, pericarditis is inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart. Pneumonitis is inflammation of the lungs.
