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Organs situated within the ribcage consisting of elastic sacs with branching passages into which air is drawn, so that oxygen can pass into the blood and carbon dioxide be removed.
Lungs
It is part of the complex biological response of body tissues to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, etc. It occurs in the bronchial tubes when you have asthma.
inflammation
To expel air from the lungs with a sudden sharp sound.
coughing
Breathing with a whistling or rattling sound in the chest.
wheezing
A portable device for administering a drug which is to be breathed in, used for relieving asthma and other bronchial or nasal congestion.
inhaler
The delicate hoses that connect your throat to your lungs.
bronchial tubes
Where the lungs and the blood exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide during the process of breathing in and breathing out.
alveoli/alveolus
To breathe out.
exhale
A colourless, odourless reactive gas, the chemical element of atomic number 8 and the life-supporting component of the air.
oxygen
The flowing blood in the circulatory system.
bloodstream
To breath in.
inhale
The action or habit of inhaling and exhaling the smoke of tobacco by sucking on the end of a lit cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
smoking
Another word for illness.
disease
Capable of being cured.
curable
