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Q: Why the lungs have 3 lobes on one side and 2 on the other?
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What part of the human body contains five lobes three on one side two on the other?

PCH=Lungs


How are the right and left lungs different from each other?

The right one has three lobes and the left one only has two.


Why don't our lungs have the same amount of lobes?

Lungs don't have the same amount of lobes because they are just like the rest of our body. One arm is longer, one foot is bigger, etc. Each lung has various amounts of lobes.


Name the lobes of the rat's lungs?

Pigs have 4 lobes in their right lung and 3 lobes in their left lung. The 3 lobes of the left lung are apical, cardiac, and diaphragmatic lobes.


What side should you get your ear stretched?

Well that's up to you there is no right side left side meaning to stretching ear lobes other than just doing one would look weird.


How do the seven lobes of the cat lung compare with humans?

A cat has 7 lobes of the lung. The right side has 3; the right apical, right cardiac, and right diaphragmatic. The left also has 3; the left apical, left cardiac, and left diaphragmatic. There is one lobe directly in between both sides called the intermediate lobe.


Can you live without one of the lung lobes?

Yes. People get lobe transplants all the time. There are two lobes on the left side of your lungs and 3 on the right. For a lobe transplant, two donors each give one lobe to the recipient and a fragment of one side of their lungs. (One person left, the other right) After, the person usually recovers fully after 4-10 days. It can be dangerous to the donors health, though if they develop a lung disease later in life. It was first tested on animals, before people started using it in the early 1990's.


What is the purpose of the medical procedure lobectomy?

A surgical procedure performed to remove one of the lobes of the lungs. The procedure may be performed when an abnormality has been detected in the lung. A lobe of the lung may be removed to avoid spread of the disease-causing pathogen to the other lobes, as with tuberculosis or certain cancerous lung tumors.


What are What are facts about the lungs?

The lungs exchanges gasses mainly oxygen an dcarbon dioxide. People breath aboue 20,000 times a day unless they get scared or do sports then their heart beat goes up by loads. So then your beat loads more times a day. The right lobe has 3 lobes and the left one has2 lobes. Did that help? By An 11 year old.


Do humans have one or two temples in the brain?

Two temples - two temporal lobes, one on each side of the brain.


What side is the temporal lobe on?

There are two temporal lobes one each side of the head just behind where your temples are (between the eyebrow and the ear).


What are the micro and macro structures of the lungs?

The macro structures of the lungs are what you can see. They would be the lobes of the lungs, bronchi, large blood vessels, lymph nodes and bronchioles. The micro structures are one you can not see without a microscope. That would be the vey small bronchioles, capillaries and the alveoli.