Major functions of the respiratory System:
- Aids the body in the exchange of gases between the air and blood and between the blood and the body’s billions of cells
- Filters, warms, and humidifies the air you breathe
- Helps the body maintain homeostasis, or balance among the many elements of the body’s internal environment
- Aids the body in the exchange of gases between the air and blood and between the blood and the body’s billions of cells
- Filters, warms, and humidifies the air you breathe
- Helps the body maintain homeostasis, or balance among the many elements of the body’s internal environment
Functions of the individual organs
How breathing works?
You take in air through your mouth or nose and from there it makes its way down the trachea and further down to the bronchial tubes. These separate into smaller branches called bronchioles which end in sacs called alveoli. Once the alveoli give the blood oxygen, it takes the blood to the heart & releases carbon dioxide while we exhale.
You take in air through your mouth or nose and from there it makes its way down the trachea and further down to the bronchial tubes. These separate into smaller branches called bronchioles which end in sacs called alveoli. Once the alveoli give the blood oxygen, it takes the blood to the heart & releases carbon dioxide while we exhale.
How alveoli works & gas exchange
Gas exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place in the alveoli. Oxygen from the inhaled air diffuses through the walls of the alveoli and adjacent capillaries into the red blood cells. The oxygen is then carried by the blood to the body tissues.
How it works with the other systems?
Skeletal: The skeletal system is very important. This system is responsible for protecting the inner body. The skeletal system is like a metal shield covering the body. This system helps the respiratory system by protecting the lungs
Digestive: The Digestive System provides our body with nutrients and the Respiratory System gives the Digestive oxygen.
Fun Facts!!!
-The right lung is slightly larger than the left
-Hairs in the nose help to clean the air we breathe as well as warming it
-The highest recorded "sneeze speed" is 165 km per hour
-The surface area of the lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court
-The capillaries in the lungs would extend 1,600 kilometres if placed end to end
Diseases
Bronchitis- The inflammation of the bronchial tubes caused by an irritant primarily being smoke.
Pulmonary Fibrosis- replacement of lung tissue of fibrous connective tissue, mainly the lungs get less elastic and breathing gets more difficult.
How it works with the other systems?
Skeletal: The skeletal system is very important. This system is responsible for protecting the inner body. The skeletal system is like a metal shield covering the body. This system helps the respiratory system by protecting the lungs
Digestive: The Digestive System provides our body with nutrients and the Respiratory System gives the Digestive oxygen.
Fun Facts!!!
-The right lung is slightly larger than the left
-Hairs in the nose help to clean the air we breathe as well as warming it
-The highest recorded "sneeze speed" is 165 km per hour
-The surface area of the lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court
-The capillaries in the lungs would extend 1,600 kilometres if placed end to end
Diseases
Bronchitis- The inflammation of the bronchial tubes caused by an irritant primarily being smoke.
Pulmonary Fibrosis- replacement of lung tissue of fibrous connective tissue, mainly the lungs get less elastic and breathing gets more difficult.