1. Where are your sinuses located?
2. What is the function of the alveoli?
3. What prevents food from going down your trachea whne you swallow?
4. What is the function of the diaphragm? How does it work?
5. The tar in cigarette smoke can damage both the cilia of your respitory tract and the alveoli. How could this decrease your ability to perform vigorous exercise?
THIS IS NOT HOMEWORK I just want to know these things!
2007-01-24 14:03:47 · 2 answers · asked by system error 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
1, Your nose, skull.
2, Take oxygen from lungs into body.
3, Doh, forgot, its not the eppiglotis, what is it?
4, allows you to breathe by contracting, that big muscle thing accross your belly.
5, decreases the amount of oxygen being absorbed.
2007-01-24 14:12:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to take an anatomy course.
2007-01-24 15:06:49 · answer #2 · answered by hbuckmeister 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋