Lungs

Frog Lungs
The frog's lungs are a pair of thin-walled sacs connected to the mouth through an opening, the glottis. The surface area of the lungs is increased by inner partitions which are richly supplied with blood vessels.
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Lungs are ingrowths of the body wall and connect to the outside by as series of tubes and small openings. Lung breathing probably evolved about 400 million years ago.
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The lungs flank the heart and great vessels in the chest cavity. (Source: Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, 20th ed. 1918.) ...
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lungs: the organ where oxygen diffuses into the blood to join with hemoglobin in the red blood cells.
lymph: a watery fluid derived from plasma that seeps out of the blood system capillaries and mingles with the cells.
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The invaginated respiratory surfaces of terrestrial vertebrates, land snails, and spiders that connect to the atmosphere by narrow tubes.
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In lungs, the narrowed ending of bronchioles that opens into a cluster of alveoli.
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The lungs are located inside the thoracic cavity, protected by the bony structure of the rib cage and enclosed by a double-walled sac called pleura.
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Cystic fibrosis -- an autosomal recessive genetic condition of the exocrine glands, which causes the body to produce excessively thick, sticky mucus that clogs the lungs and pancreas, interfering with breathing and digestion.
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Like all mammals, whales breathe air into lungs, are warm-blooded (i.e., endothermic), breast-feed their young, and have some (although very little) hair.
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CBD is an autoimmune disease affecting the lungs of susceptible individuals. Antigen-presenting cell surface proteins have been the focus of investigation into possible genetic susceptibility to this disease.
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In general they cause muscle contractions that constrict air passages in the lungs, involved in asthma. levorotatory isomer A stereoisomer that rotates the plane of plane-polarized light counterclockwise.
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Biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients can be life-threatening. The thick mucus that this inherited disorder produces provides a suitable environment for an infection to become established.
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Vertebrates with lungs have a single trachea carrying air to the lungs, while insects and some other land-living arthropods have a complex network of tracheae carrying air from the spiracles to all parts of the body.
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Alveolus the tiny air sacs in the lungs in which gases are exchanged with the blood
(alveol = cavity pit socket)
Amine an organic molecule with at least one amino (-NH2) group attached
(amin e o = ammonia) ...
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Thick mucous forms in the digestive tract and lungs of people with CF. As a result, they have difficult breathing and are susceptible to lung infections.
People with cystic fibrosis have a life expectancy of approximately 30 years.
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tube leading from trachea to lungs
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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In mammals the paired lungs are each supplied by a bronchus that divides, treelike, into bronchioles. Each bronchiole ends in an atrium from which arise numerous alveoli that contact a vast capillary system.
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pulmonary circuit The system of blood vessels from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs, transporting deoxygenated blood and returning oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
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For example, the glycoprotein hormone alpha subunit is produced only in certain cell types of the anterior pituitary and placenta, not in lungs or skin; thus expression of the glycoprotein hormone alpha-chain gene is said to be tissue-specific.
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This mutation causes the red blood cells to take on a sickle shape, rather than their characteristic donut shape. Individuals who suffer from sickle cell disease are chronically anemic and experience significant damage to their heart, lungs, ...
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