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  2. Cough reflex - Wikipedia

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    The cough receptors or rapidly adapting irritant receptors are located mainly on the posterior wall of the trachea, larynx, and at the carina of trachea, the point where the trachea branches into the main bronchi. The receptors are less abundant in the distal airways and absent beyond the respiratory bronchioles.

  3. Carina of trachea - Wikipedia

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    The carina is around the area posterior to where the ... The mucous membrane of the carina is the most sensitive area of the trachea and larynx for triggering a cough ...

  4. Cough center - Wikipedia

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    The cough center is a region of the brain which controls coughing. The cough center is located in the medulla oblongata in the brainstem . Cough suppressants focus their action on the cough center.

  5. Respiratory center - Wikipedia

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    The solitary nucleus sends signals to the respiratory center from peripheral chemoreceptors, baroreceptors, and other types of receptors in the lungs in particular the stretch receptors. Thus, the dorsal respiratory group is seen as an integrating center that gives the ventral respiratory group output to modify the breathing rhythm. [4] [5]

  6. Cough - Wikipedia

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    A cough is a sudden expulsion of air through the large breathing passages which can help clear them of fluids, irritants, foreign particles and microbes.As a protective reflex, coughing can be repetitive with the cough reflex following three phases: an inhalation, a forced exhalation against a closed glottis, and a violent release of air from the lungs following opening of the glottis, usually ...

  7. Respiratory tract - Wikipedia

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    These hairs, called vibrissae, are thicker than body hair and effectively block larger particles from entering the respiratory tract. They also increase the surface area for particle deposition, improving the nose's ability to filter pathogens. [15] The cough reflex expels all irritants within the mucous membrane to the outside. The airways of ...

  8. Pharyngeal reflex - Wikipedia

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    The CNS receives this message and sends an appropriate response via an efferent nerve (also known as a motor neuron) to effector cells located in the same initial area that can then carry out the appropriate response. [1] In the case of the pharyngeal reflex: the sensory limb is mediated predominantly by CN IX (glossopharyngeal nerve)

  9. Control of ventilation - Wikipedia

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    Receptors play important roles in the regulation of respiration and include the central and peripheral chemoreceptors, and pulmonary stretch receptors, a type of mechanoreceptor. Central chemoreceptors of the central nervous system, located on the ventrolateral medullary surface, are sensitive to the pH of their environment. [8] [9]