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  2. Your lungs make up a large part of your respiratory system, which is the network of organs and tissues that allow you to breathe. You have two lungs, one on each side of your chest, which is also called the thorax. Your thorax is the area of your body between your neck and your abdomen.

  3. Lungs: Anatomy, Function, and Treatment - Verywell Health

    www.verywellhealth.com/lung-anatomy-4843718

    The lungs are a major organ that is part of the respiratory system, taking in fresh air and getting rid of old, stale air. This mechanism of breathing also helps to allow you to talk. By taking in fresh air, the lungs are able to help oxygenate blood to be carried around your body.

  4. Lung - Wikipedia

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    The lungs are the main organs of the respiratory system in many terrestrial animals, including all tetrapod vertebrates and a small number of amphibious fish (lungfish and bichirs), pulmonate gastropods (land snails and slugs, which have analogous pallial lungs), and some arachnids (tetrapulmonates such as spiders and scorpions, which have book ...

  5. Lung Anatomy, Function, and Diagrams - Healthline

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    The lungs are the main part of your respiratory system. Here is how lungs work as the center of your breathing, the path a full breath takes in your body, and a 3-D model of lung anatomy.

  6. How Lungs Work - American Lung Association

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    Your lungs are part of the respiratory system, a group of organs and tissues that work together to help you breathe. The respiratory system’s main job is to transport oxygen and remove extra carbon dioxide.

  7. How the Lungs Work - The Lungs - NHLBI, NIH

    www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/lungs

    Your lungs are the pair of spongy, pinkish-gray organs in your chest. When you inhale (breathe in), air enters your lungs, and oxygen from that air moves to your blood. At the same time, carbon dioxide, a waste gas, moves from your blood to the lungs and is exhaled (breathed out).

  8. Lung, in air-breathing vertebrates, either of the two large organs of respiration located in the chest cavity and responsible for adding oxygen to and removing carbon dioxide from the blood. The lungs are soft, light, spongy, elastic organs that normally, after birth, always contain air.

  9. The Lungs: Anatomy and 3D Illustrations - Innerbody

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    The human lungs are a pair of large, spongy organs optimized for gas exchange between our blood and the air. Our bodies require oxygen in order to survive. The lungs provide us with that vital oxygen while also removing carbon dioxide before it can reach hazardous levels.

  10. Lung: Anatomy, blood supply, innervation, functions | Kenhub

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    The human lungs are a pair of spongy organs within the thoracic cavity that facilitate gaseous exchange. They are a part of the respiratory system, which also includes the nose, nasal sinuses, mouth, pharynx, larynx, and trachea.

  11. How the Lungs Work - The Respiratory System - NHLBI, NIH

    www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/lungs/respiratory-system

    Your lungs are on each side of your heart, inside your chest cavity. They are the main organs of the respiratory system. The right lung is divided into three lobes (sections), and the left lung is divided into two lobes.