The way of breathing
It is not that easy to give a description of the path of the air we breathe, because the air covers a distance through several parts of the body. However, you can draw a schematic diagram of this journey.
The path of the air you breathe can easily be traced through a description. Because the air takes in body always the same trajectories with every breath.
The first way of breathing
- First, the air is drawn through the nostrils into the nose inhaled. There it flows through the nasal hairs along the nasal mucosa into the nasal cavities of both nostrils.
- This path ensures that the air is cleaned, humidified and warmed up and thus optimally prepared for its further path in the body.
- When describing the path of the air we breathe, there is a second possibility: Of course, the air can also use the mouth are inhaled, then it ends up in the throat after the route through the oral cavity. The air from the nose is next in the throat and flows from there via the larynx into the windpipe.
- The windpipe is about four inches long and has cartilage braces running through it that keep it open for air to flow through.
- The trachea first runs along the diaphragm and divides into the two main bronchi, which lead into the two lungs. There, the air you breathe flows into the fine bronchi and bronchioles, where it also flows through hairs and moves along the mucous membranes.
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A description of the way back
- After the air in the lungs has been thoroughly cleaned, it passes through the bronchi into the alveoli.
- There a diffusion takes place, during which the oxygen migrates from the air into the blood vessels and carbon dioxide from the blood through the thin wall into the alveoli and thus into the air we breathe got. This gas exchange is the whole point of breathing.
- The air then flows back the same way.
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