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PULMONARY PHYSIOLOGY (everything from Watkins/Delaney’s notes is in here, but there’s some extra stuff from the physio for dummies text) INTRODUCTION Lung respiratory and conducting zones Respiratory zone – respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts sacs Conducting zone – bronchioles, bronchi, trachea Alveoli have largest cross-sectional area Bronchioles have smooth muscle cartilage 23 divisions of branches into ever smaller conduits Mucous-secreting, ciliated cells line conducting zone airways. Large particles stop at nose, smaller ones caught in cilia, finest particles (like asbestos) ma