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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 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.
Can you live without bronchioles?
no probably not because they need it to purify their air so the dont get stufff like carbon monoxide in their lungs yikes
What are the complications of aNeedle biopsy of the lung?
If the lung collapses, a tube will have to be inserted into the chest to remove the air. Some coughing up of blood occurs in 5% of needle biopsies. Prolonged bleeding or infection may also occur,
The alveoli and the breathing route: nose + mouth to--> trachea
to--> bronchus
to--> bronchi (not the same as bronchus, I don't know why)
to--> bronchioli
-->alveoli
-->capillary
and then return to deflate
What is the 2 names of the blood vessels that carry blood to your lungs?
The blood vessel that carries blood to the lungs is called the pulmonary trunk or pulmonary artery
The lungs are fed by one tube called the trachea (TRAY kee uh)
This tube branches out into different levels of brachea (BRAY kee uh) which go to the two separate lungs.
What function of mucus in the lungs?
the function of the mucus blanket in the lungs is to filter and moisten the air.
bronchi is tube shaped organ. It splits from primary bronchus and enters lungs.
None. Insects don't have lungs, they have breathing tubes called trachea instead.
What stops food entering the lungs?
The epiglottis normally keeps this from happening.
* How The Epiglottis Works:
When you swallow, a small flap - called the epiglottis - briefly covers the top of the windpipe (or trachea) so that food goes the right way, into the digestive system, and not the wrong way, into the respiratory tract.
The flap can't stay down all the time, or you would not be able to breathe! Sometimes a little food or liquid does get into the windpipe - perhaps if you ingest it very quickly - and that's when you cough to get it out again.
When you swallow, the epiglottis should automatically cover the windpipe, so swallowing is a good way to suppress a cough if you are somewhere where you don't want to make a noise...
What is bilateral bronchovascular markings are prominent mean?
Bronchovascular Markings These comprise of 98 % vessels, mainly veins. Respiratory passages are not visible as these contain air. Normal shadows start from hila pass through proximal 1/3rd traverse to middle 1/3rd and just reach the border of distal third. Normaly markings are greatest in the medial part of lower zone. To say whether increased or not basically, in the opinion of Dr Tarar, it is an eyeball technique. With the experience your start saying this is increased or this is normal. Increased Markings This always means either Infection in respiratory passages or fluid overload. Infection may be acute or chronic. If radiologist reports increased bronchovascular markings but clinical situation is not supporting any thing it can be ignored and film should be taken as normal. In cardiac failure cases so called reversal of pattern of markings occur. There is increase in markings in midzones due to fluid overload. Actually this is not reversal. This is only increase in midzones. In chronic bronchitis markings are increased. In emphysema these are decreased in hyperinflated areas. In collapse of the lungs beyond the line-demarcating lung, these must be absent. Source: http://www.pakjfm.com/panelinterview/p9.htm
