Your lungs pull air into your body to get oxygen to your bloodstream. Learn more about your lungs, the main organ of your respiratory system.
The lungs have a unique blood supply, receiving deoxygenated blood sent from the heart to receive oxygen (the pulmonary circulation) and a separate supply of oxygenated blood (the bronchial circulation). The tissue of the lungs can be affected by several respiratory diseases including pneumonia and lung cancer.
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.
Lungs are part of the respiratory system, a group of organs and tissues that work together to help you breathe. You can live for two weeks without food, two days without water, but only two minutes without air. Every single organ in your body is made up of cells, and they all require oxygen for you ...
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The lungs are the organ responsible for inhaling, exhaling, and respirating air throughout the body by way of the bloodstream.
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). This process, called gas exchange, is essential to life.