the.com/respiratory system
The only machine you own that runs itself, badly, while you sleep and panic.
means The network of organs — nose, throat, airways, and lungs — that moves air in and out of your body and swaps oxygen into your blood for carbon dioxide.
from From Latin 'respirare' — 're-' (again) plus 'spirare' (to breathe). 'Spirare' is the same root behind 'spirit' and 'inspire,' since breath was long taken as the visible proof of life and soul — to breathe out for the last time was, quite literally, to 'expire.'
- surface area
- lungs unfold to roughly a tennis court
- daily volume
- you move about 11,000 liters of air
- hiccup cause
- diaphragm spasming like a confused piston
- sneeze speed
- exhaled air can hit 100 mph