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Your lungs contain nearly 1,500 miles of airways

Your lungs contain nearly 1,500 miles of airways

Your lungs contain nearly 1,500 miles of airways

Branching bronchioles and tiny alveolar ducts create an enormous internal network — on the order of 1,500 miles of airways.

Spread out, the alveoli’s gas-exchange surface approaches a tennis court’s area for oxygen and carbon dioxide trade.

A forest of tubes in the chest. Every breath is logistics across that hidden mileage.

Shahzad Mahota Shahzad Mahota @shahzad-mahota

Your lungs contain nearly 1,500 miles of airways