The Human Respiratory System: Its Anatomy, Structure, and Functions, , Shri Ram Medical College

The respiratory system helps you breathe. Respiratory system includes lungs muscles. These parts carry oxygen through the body and remove waste gases like CO2. The respiratory system is complex. It helps you inhale and exhale, talks, and smells. Warms and moistens air to your body s needs. Delivers oxygen to cells, removes waste gases, including carbon dioxide, and protects airways from hazardous substances and irritants. Many elements of the respiratory system help you breathe. Each group has numerous parts. Airways bring air to lungs. Your airways include: Mouth and nose bring outside air into the lungs. Sinuses are hollow regions between your head s bones that regulate temperature and humidity. Pharynx is Tube that carries air from mouth and nose to trachea (windpipe). Trachea is throattolungs passageway. Bronchial tubes connect each lung to the windpipe. Lungs extract oxygen from air and provide it to the blood. Bloodstream oxygenates organs and tissues fro