Question

Felicia has a respiratory infection and has been coughing up a lot of mucus. She knows this means that her respiratory system is working to restore balance by getting rid of the invasive materials from her lungs. How does this happen?

Answer 1

mechanisms within the bronchial tubes move the mucus, formed around invasive materials, out of the lungs

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Answer 2

Mucus is released from the two different part of tissues of the lung. Goblet cells that produces mucus present in the surface of the epithelium. The second is the seromucous glands that produce mucus.

There are production of the high amount of the mucus a day from both the regions, it is stick in nature that helps to trap dust particles, debris, or bacteria. These sticky secretion contains natural antibiotics that easily destroy bacteria, this process called defensis.