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Respiratory System

The respiratory system includes the lungs and the airway. The questions in this category focus mainly on the anatomical and physiological processes associated with breathing.

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What are alveoil?

An alveous is an air sack ath the the end of each stem thing in the lung. They are surrounded by cappilaries. The air is stored in the alveoli and an diffusion occurs of the oxgen moving through the thin wall of the alveolus into the blood and the carbon dioxide moving into the alveolus and then the carbon dioxide is brethed out

Do you breathe in or breathe out oxygen?

Humans breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide.

Trees "breathe" out oxygen.

What is the difference between inhalation and exhalation?

The difference of inhalation and exhalation are, inhalation is inhaling the oxygen or the air , and exhalation is exhaling or breathe out

Do you have to have all of the main organs of the respiratory system to live?

No you don't need all the organs in your respiratory system to live you can live with 1 lung.

Why are there fine hairs in your nostrils?

They are sometimes called nose hairs. Their function is to filter small particles like dust and pollen from going deeper into the airway.

Five indicators of a significant respiratory distress?

Respiratory distress is a clinical term to describe a patient who is having difficulties breathing, as characterised by increased effort. It can result from many different conditions in the respiratory system, including asthma, bronchiolitis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia and epiglottitis. Respiratory distress can lead to respiratory failure. The clinical signs of respiratory distress will vary slightly with the age of the patient.

Five signs of respiratory distress which may be present are:

1. Fast respiratory rate. Although note that if the patient is going into respiratory failure, it may be slow.

2. Increased work of breathing; which may be seen as chest retractions, nasal flaring and grunting in children. The adult chest is not as flexible and so retractions are not as obvious and adults do not usually grunt. Intercostal recessions may be seen.

3. Cyanosis (blue colour). Although note that this occurs in rather severe respiratory distress and will not always be seen in young children.

4. Unusual posturing. Patient may sit in tripod position (leaning forwards on outstretched arms) and with jaw thrust forwards, to maximise air entry.

5. Tachycardia (fast heart rate); although bradycardia can occur in respiratory failure.

In addition, there may be a change in mental state due to hypoxemia (lack of oxygen in blood), leading to irritability in children and confusion in adults.

How could the word 'larynx' be used in a sentence?

The word larynx is a noun and is also known as the voice box. Singing a lot of high notes irritated Mary Jo's larynx.
The larynx is also called the voice box.

Smoking can cause cancer of the larynx.

What parts make up the fuel injection system?

Fuel travels from the fuel tank, through the fuel filter, propelled by the fuel pump. The Engine Control Module (aka the ECM or computer) controls the fuel pump through a relay; basically it provides a signal at the time the key is turned on to run the pump for a few seconds to generate pressure, and then turns the pump on when it detects the engine is running.

After the fuel filter, fuel enters the fuel rail(s) in which are mounted fuel injectors. The injectors are basically solenoids or electrically controlled valves. When signaled by the ECM they spray a measured amount of fuel into the intake manifold just before the mixture enters the combustion chamber.

Auxiliary to the fuel injection system are several sensors which the ECM takes into account to vary the pulse width delivered to the injectors, adding more or less fuel into the combustion mixture. Among these sensors are mass air flow or manifold air pressure sensors (either of which determines the amount of air flowing into the engine through the intake), intake air temperature sensor, engine coolant temperature sensor (to alter the mixture to help the car warm up more quickly), oxygen sensors (to determine whether the mixture burned completely -- was the mixture rich or lean).

Do breathing patterns change with the temperature?

Breathing patterns definitely alter according to your body temperature yes.

Although I am not certain, this may be due more to the fact that when you exercise, for example, you effectively burn more fuel in your muscles and this produces heat when free energy is released (although much more controlled by the enzymatic processes of respiration in your body, than that occurring when you burn fuel on a fire).


However, the increase in breathing that accompanies this energy expenditure during exercise is due to the demand for oxygen by the exercising tissue, not so much the increase in body temperature. Your body dissipates this excess heat through increasing peripheral blood flow (through opening additional vessels beneath the skin surface) and sweating to cool this blood though evaporation.


Furthermore, a recent paper (linked in reference on this website http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/12/16/2447520.htm) suggests that yawning may could possibly serve to cool an overheated brain, and used evidence that in very hot or very cold climates, the extremes of temperature would be detrimental to the brain if yawning occurred and so does not happen, but at temperatures closer to ambient room yawning does occur in overheated animals. Or so it seams.


However, yawning might possibly be linked to a compensatory response to changes in arterial CO2 levels resulting from variation in breathing patterns when you are tired. This has no supporting evidence, but it is possible that breathing may change in relation to temperature for a variety of reasons, which need to be tested t properly answer your question!