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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 term that best describes cancer?
1. Noncommunicable disease.
2. Uncontrolled rate of human cell regeneration.
What happen to the nitrogen you inhale into your lungs?
you will sufficate die for the lack of oxygen
The first is correct only if the gas is nearly pure nitrogen, without significant oxygen. Otherwise, there will be no ill effects whatsoever.
The earth's atmosphere is 79% nitrogen, so everybody is breathing primarily nitrogen all the time! The fact is, the nitrogen does almost nothing except dilute the oxygen we breathe (which is about 20% of the atmosphere). This dilution is important -- breathing pure oxygen for prolonged periods is injurious.
What disease of the lungs is caused by buildup of damaged tissue in the alveoli?
There are several. Sarcoidosis, and sclerosis both essentially cause "scarring" of the inner lung tissue but the true cause of sachoid is unknown at present. Smoking generally causes COPD or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease which is a combination of chronic bronchitis and Enphizema. Sorry if my spelling is a bit off. Just sound it out. :)
The bronchi continue to divide into smaller and smaller branches until they end in air sacs. The air sacs in the lungs are called alveoli.
The lungs are part of which body system?
The lungs is the part of the nervous body system. It helps in take in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide.
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The lungs are part of the nervous system when you scream or talk. It is part of the respiratory system for when you breath in oxygen. It is part of the excretory system for when you breath out carbon dioxide.
What kinds of medical conditions may result in a collapsed lung?
All of these can cause it: cystic fibrosis, asthma, COPD, lung cancer..an infection in the lungs can also cause a collapsed lung. And, of course, trauma.
What is the texture of the lungs?
It's like the texture of any animal's lungs, smooth. It is made up of smooth muscle (literally, that's the term) after all!
What part of lungs are affected by smoking?
Lungs get coated with soot, which reduces their ability to act as an exchange barrier, making breathing and gaseous exchange harder.
There are no muscles in the lungs that help inhale or exhale, this is the job of the diaphragm.
Why does blood return to the lungs?
The blood that returns to the lungs is rich in Carbon Monoxide (CO). CO exits the blood via the lungs when it returns to the lungs, and Oxygen (C2O) will enter the blood. The blood then goes back to the heart and it gets pumped through the rest of the body.
What do your lungs help us to do?
They help us breathe and live. They help you breathe <P>They help us breathe and live.</P>
<P>They bring in oxygen and give it to the blood to transport to all of our cells so they can use it to burn the fats and sugars for energy</P>
What important job do lungs have in your body?
they help us breathe and get oxygen in our bodies and get carbon dioxide out
Yes, they have a very basic form of "lung"; this is no more than a moist cavity within the mantel into which air is drawn through the pneumostome (opening in its side). The oxygen is then absorb through a mucous membrane into the body.
When donning the protective mask expel the air from your lungs before what step?
perform negative pressure check
Why is the apex of the right lung more likely to have tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis seems to be more common in the right lung rather than the left lung due to the short right trachea.
Anatomically the left trachea is longer than the right one due to the position of the heart and the major vessels. As a result microbes can more easily navigate to the right lung rather than the left lung.
What will happen to your diaphragm and chest cavity as you inhale and exhale?
The lung expands when it gets full of air , so the chest needs to do the same ,because if it didn't the lungs wouldn't fit in there when they get full , and that would be a terrible mistake of our body.
Carbon dioxide is produced as a waste product of aerobic respiration: oxygen + glucose ----> carbon dioxide + water + ATP(energy). This CO2 must be excreted somehow, so the blood takes it from the cytoplasm in our respiring cells, and transports it to our lungs, when we subsequently exhale it out of our bodies.
What does green Amniotic fluid indicate?
That your baby possibly had a bowel movement. It is called meconium.
