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Respiratory System

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respiratory system   takes in oxygen from the air you breathe; exchange gases between air and blood  
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respiration   process of breathing in oxygen and breathing out carbon dioxide  
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oxygen   taken into your blood and used by your entire body  
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carbon dioxide   leaves your blood through the thin walls of tiny structures in your lungs; then removed from body  
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air   what we breathe; gases around us  
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autonomic   carries out the activities of our body without thinking  
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contract   moves down allowing more air to enter the lungs  
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exhale   take out or remove gases  
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expand   when we breath, our lungs get bigger (blow up like a balloon)  
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inhale   take in gases  
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lungs   main structure of the respiratory system; contain alveoli; oxygen moves from here into the blood and carbon dioxide moves from the blood into the alveoli; carbon dioxide leaves the lungs through nose/mouth  
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mouth/nose   when you breath in air (oxygen) may enter your body through one of these two; mostly carbon dioxide exits here  
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pharynx   tube extending from the back of the nasal cavity and mouth to the esophagus that is the passage through which air passes to the larynx  
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red blood cell   solid part of blood that has hemoglobin which carries oxygen around in the body  
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trachea   (wind pipe); air passes from your throat through here before entering your lungs  
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vocal cords   stretch over the larynx; when air passes through they begin to vibrate; these vibrations, along with the movements of the tongue and lips produces sounds, enabling speech  
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diaphragm   thin sheet lies below the lungs; tighten and relax to make you breath in and out  
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alveoli   tiny sacs in the lungs covered with capillaries  
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larynx   upper part of the trachea that contains the vocal cords (voice box)  
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bronchi   after the trachea, gases travel into these two "branches" (one for each lung)  
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bronchioles   lead gases into the lungs (look like roots for a plant)  
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