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The Respiratory System
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IntroductionThe respiratory
system is the system of the body responsible for the exchange of gases from the atmosphere with the body.
Oxygen is brought into the body, whereas carbon dioxide is released into the environment.
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Structure of the Respiratory System
A respiratory system consists of three parts:
1.A moist respiratory surface (i.e. alveoli)
2.A means of bringing air into the body (i.e. lung)
3.A means of transporting the respiratory gases around the body. (i.e. circulatory system)
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Interesting FactsThe alveoli in your lungs
are 1 cell thick so that gases can quickly diffuse across them into or out of the bloodstream.
Frogs are able to exchange gases in three ways:
With their lungs Across their skin Through their mouth
Some individuals can hold their breath more than 3 minutes!
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Breathing In As we breathe in, the follow things occur that allow
air to enter our lungs:1) Our diaphragm, the smooth muscle separating our
thoracic cavity from our abdominal cavity, contracts and flattens out.
2) Our intercostal muscles, the muscles between the ribs contract.
3) Both these movements allow the lungs to expand and increase their volume. An increase in volume decreases the pressure of the air in the lungs and essentially creates a vacuum which sucks air in from the outside environment.
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Air Traveling to the LungsAir that we breathe
enters the body either through our mouth or our nasal passages.
Here air is moistened and warmed.
Hair and mucus in our nose also filters the air.
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Air Traveling to the LungsThe air reaches a connection between the two entry
points, known as the pharynx (or throat).Here air is guided down past our larynx (or voice box)
and into our trachea (or windpipe).
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Air Traveling to the LungsOur trachea is a
hollow tube made from cartilage rings.
These rings prevent our trachea from collapsing (i.e. when we sleep).
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Air Traveling to the LungsThe trachea branches off into two large tubes called
bronchi (sing. bronchus).Each bronchus leads into one of our lungs.
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Air Traveling to the LungsThe bronchi keep
splitting into smaller and smaller tubes called bronchioles, which ensure air reaches all the corners of our lungs.
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Air Traveling to the LungsAt the end of the
bronchioles are alveoli, which are thin walled membranes arranged in grape-like clusters.
This is where gas exchange occurs as alveoli are right next to blood vessels (capillaries).
Once gas exchange has occurred, the carbon dioxide is needed to be expelled from the body.
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Breathing OutAs we breathe out, the follow things occur that
allow air to exit our lungs:1)Our diaphragm relaxes and domes upward into
our thoracic cavity.2)Our intercostal muscles relax.3)Both these movements cause the lungs to
decrease their volume. A decrease in volume increases the pressure of the air in the lungs and essentially creates a plenum which forces air out of the lungs into the outside environment.
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Control of Breathing RateThe medulla oblongata, a
portion of our brain stem, controls our breathing rate by monitoring the level of carbon dioxide in our blood stream.
When the level is too high, it sends a message to our intercostal muscles and our diaphragm to contract faster and therefore breath faster in order to get rid of the CO2.
This is negative feedback.
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Homework Trace the path that air takes from the
atmosphere into the bloodstream. Describe the muscle movements and volume
and pressure changes involved in breathing. Define Tidal Volume and Vital Capacity. How can the respiratory system become
impaired? How does our body control our breathing
rate, even when we sleep?