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The Respiratory System of Human Body

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  We are going to discuss about the respiratory system in this article. One of the most vital organ systems of our body is the respiratory system. We breathe about 16,000 to 24,000 times per day, which exchanges about 11,000 liters of air with the atmosphere in this process. The oxygen of the atmospheric air is delivered to the human body, which is then utilized by all the tissues, and the carbon dioxide which is produced by the human body is exported to the lungs and then exchanged with the atmospheric air, In this article we will first talk about the brief anatomy and physiology of the human respiratory system and then we will discuss how the gas transport to the alveoli occurs, we will talk about how the human respiratory system works together with the circulatory system and then we will talk about how the gas exchange happens in the alveoli.   So, first coming to the anatomy and physiology of the human respiratory system, the vocal cords present in the larynx divide the respira