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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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How is a bird's respiratory system designed to help it breathe in flight.?
by breathing with his stomach
Can a respiratory therapist have tattoos?
Respiratory therapists can have tattoos. However, they have to follow certain rules in order to have them while in practice. They must use a tattoo concealer while at work.
If you're not producing carbon dioxide you're dead, because its produced, along with water from carbohydrates and oxygen in respiration, which is sort of what life is. A live adult human makes about 1Kg of carbon dioxide a day- it has to go somewhere.
If you're making it faster that you're excreting it (becuase you can't breathe very well) it will build up in the blood and body tissues, partly dissolved in the plasma, partly bound to haemoglobin but mostly in the bicarbonate buffer system. So carbonic acid will increase immediately. This will lower the pH of the blood, something that the body will defend at all costs. It'll counter this by retaining bicarbonate with the kidneys, so bicarbonate will increase as well but it will take longer.
What type of respiration can produce lactic or alcohol?
Anaerobic respiration produces lactic acid in humans and ethanol in plants.
How efficient are your lungs at capturing oxygen from the air?
Our lungs are extremely efficient at capturing oxygen from the air. However, it will vary from person to person, as it generally depends on breathing patterns of an individual and if they have an upper respiratory ailment.
they all work together and help the bird fly because a birds lungs connect to the air sacs that provide a constant supply of oxygen to the blood and make the bird more lightweight.
Where are the respiratory centers housed which control involuntary breathing rates?
The respiratory centers which control involuntary breathing rates are in the medulla and pons.
You have a cold dummy ;)
A "loogie" is a thick ball of phlegm that forms in the trachea or bronchial tubes, and is coughed up. To cough up a ball of phlegm and spit it out is colloquially called " to hock a loogie" or "hawking a loogie" (from the characteristic sound of expectoration, and related to the verb "hack" meaning to cough).
Why are gills not suitable for breathing air?
Gills are designed to absorb oxygen only from water, and can only work if water is passing through them or they will collapse. When a fish is taken out of the water, the oxygen-absorbing filaments of the gills flatten out and the fish suffocates because it's gills are not made to absorb oxygen directly from air.
The simple answer is that gills colapse when removed from water as they are adapted to water which is more dense than air.
What does overeating do to the respiratory system?
It is my understanding that by engorging the stomach with food, it puts pressure under the lungs causing difficulty in taking a full deep breath. It can also cause the opening of the stomach to become open causing the acid from the stomach to regurgitate up into the esophagus. This acid can be regurgitated up into the esophagus causing heartburn. That acid can sometimes get into the lungs. Prolonged acid reflux can lead to esophageal cancer as the lining of the esophagus isn't able to handle the acid that the stomach produces. The stomach lining and esophagus lining are quiet different.
Breathe out:
When the intercoastal muscle relaxs,the rib cages moves downwards and inwards,the diaphragm will moves up.The volumn of chest decreases and gas pressure increases.The air then breathe out.
Breathe in:
When the intercoastle muscle contracts,the rib cages move upward and outward,and the diaphragm moves down.the volumn of chest then increases and gas pressure decreases.Air then enter the lungs.
the actions of intercostle muscle,diaphragm and ribs bring about breathing
How can the same biochemical be both a reactant and product in aerobic respiration?
The citric acid cycle is a cycle.
Increased Strength of respiratory Muscles?
because my a buthole is about the size of a sewer pipe... thats what 3 years in prison gets you!
What would you use an environmental quality survey for?
An an environmental quality survey is used to compare the quality of the environment in different areas, or in the same area after a passage of years.
What is the difference of pressure between the atmosphere and pressure in the lungs?
Not much. You create slight changes in pressure when you breathe, but it's almost insignificant.
Which part of your skeleton moves so that you can breath?
During breathing, the diaphragm 'pulls' downwards and the ribcage is also 'pulled' outwards (by the intercostal muscles) - these two movements increase the volume of the chest. This increase in volume creates a lower pressure in the lungs compared to the outside of the body and through diffusion, air is 'sucked' into the lungs.
