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The small balloon-like sacs in the lungs. Gases are exchanged here.
What are alveoli?
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This is also called the windpipe. This is the main tube where air passes through to get to the lungs.
What is the trachea?
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To push air out of the lungs. Carbon dioxide is carried out of your body when you do this.
What is exhale?
Short and tiny hair found in the nose and windpipe.
What is cilia?
These are smaller tubes that branch off of the right and left bronch in the lungs. Alveoli are found at the end of these.
What are bronchioles?
A thin piece of cartilage that covers the trachea during swallowing. It prevents the food from coming into your windpipe.
What is epiglottis?
To bring air into the lungs. Oxygen is carried into your lungs and body when you do this.
What is inhale?
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The fluid that moves through the body's veins and arteries. They act like delivery men, bringing oxygen and carbon dioxide to and from the heart and lungs.
What is blood?
Two pairs of tissue folds in the throat that vibrate to make a person's voice.
What are vocal cords?
These are tubes that branch off of the trachea. They help bring air to the lungs.
What are bronchi? or What is a bronchus?
Tiny hairlike tubes that carry blood in the body.
What are capillaries?
A body organ near the center of the chest that pumps blood through the body.
What is heart?
A slimy fluid that coats and protects the inside of your mouth, nose, throat, and other breathing passages.
What is mucus?
A colorless, tasteless and odorless gas. Humans and other living things need this to live.
What is oxygen?
Also called the throat; it connects the mouth and nasal passages with the esophagus and trachea.
What is pharynx?
A gas found in the air. The lungs remove this from the body when you exhale.
What is carbon dioxide?
To move back and forth rapidly, producing a quivering effect or sound.
What is vibrate?
The body system that supplies oxygen to the body and removes carbon dioxide. The nose, lungs, diaphragm, trachea, and bronchi are all parts of the this system.
What is the respiratory system?
Baglike organs inside the chest that you use to breathe; the lungs supply the blood with oxygen and rid it of carbon dioxide.
What are lungs?
The two-beat pattern the heart follows when pumping blood.
What is heartbeat?
The system of blood, vessels, and heart that moves blood throughout the body.
What is circulatory system?
The wall of muscle below the chest. It helps pull air into your lungs and push it back out.
What is the diaphragm?