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Neil S. Cherniack
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Professor of Medicine and Physiology; Dean, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Coeditor of Handbook of Physiology, sect. 3, The Respiratory System, vol. 2, Control of Breathing.

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Medical illustration of the human chest showing the lungs, diaphragm, ribs, trachea, bronchus, and bronchioles, with one lung cut away to reveal internal structures.
Human respiratory system, the system in humans that takes up oxygen and expels carbon dioxide. The human gas-exchanging organ, the lung, is located in the thorax, where its delicate tissues are protected by the bony and muscular thoracic cage. The lung provides the tissues of the human body with a…
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