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Lungs

Lungs. By: Eun Ji and Cherry . About Lungs. The lungs are a vital organ in our body, located in our chests. These organs brings oxygen . Each lung is made up of lobes.

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Lungs

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  1. Lungs By: Eun Ji and Cherry

  2. About Lungs The lungs are a vital organ in our body, located in our chests. These organs brings oxygen . Each lung is made up of lobes. The left lung has 2 lobes and the right lung has 3. The tiniest branch is called bronchioles. It has a thickness of a human hair. There are bout 30,000 bronchioles in each lung.

  3. How your Lungs works? • The Lungs can breathe in and out as much as 36,000 a day without you even think. Very simple, the function of the lungs is to absorb oxygen. When remove for transplant , the lungs can survive outside the body longer than any other organ. The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart. About 10,000 quart of air go through your lungs everyday. The total surface area of the alveoli is around the size of a tennis court.

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  5. What is Lung Cancer? • Cancer of the Lung, like other cancers, results from an abnormality in the body’s basic unit of life, the cell. Normally, the body maintains a system of checks and balances on cell growth so that cells divide to produce new cells only when new cells are needed. Disruption of this system of checks and balances on cell growth results in an uncontrolled division and proliferation of cells that eventually forms a mass known as a tumor.

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