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Alveoli
Tiny air sacs
Type 1 pneumocytes
Thin cells for gas exhange
Type ll pneumocytes
Produce lung surfactants
Lung
Main organ for breathing
Horizontal fissure
separates the superior and middle lobes of the R lung
Oblique fissure
separates the middle and inferior lobes of the R lung; superior and inferior lobes of the L lung
Oxygenated blood
blood that Pulmon has passed through the lungs and picked up 02; carried by the pulmonary vein
Deoxygenated blood
blood that has passed through the tissues and released some of its 02; carried by the pulmonary artery
Respiratory membrane
thin barrier between alveoli and capillaries where Or and COz exchange occurs