Respiratory System
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- 5. involves both bringing air into the lungs (inhalation) and releasing air to the atmosphere
- 6. septum A wall of cartilage divides the nose into 2 separate chambers.
- 9. tiny air sacs in your lungs that take up the oxygen you breathe in and keep your body going.
- 10. the hollow muscular organ forming an air passage to the lungs and holding the vocal cords in humans and other mammals; the voice box.
- 11. he network of organs and tissues that help you breathe
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- 1. each of a pair of serous membranes lining the thorax and enveloping the lungs in humans and other mammals.
- 2. the process by which cells derive energy from glucose.
- 3. specialized organelles that provide the force necessary to transport foreign materials in the respiratory tract
- 4. a long, U-shaped tube that connects your larynx (voice box) to your lungs.
- 6. the part projecting above the mouth on the face of a person
- 7. a cavity within a bone or other tissue, especially one in the bones of the face or skull connecting with the nasal cavities.
- 8. any of the major air passages of the lungs which diverge from the windpipe.