The windpipe is lined with ciliated columnar epithelium…
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The windpipe is lined with ciliated columnar epithelium. What do the cilia do? What may happen to a person who smokes, and so damages the cilia?
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Epithelium covers and lines. Squamous: flat. Cuboidal: cube. Columnar: tall. Ciliated: with cilia that sweep mucus.
The worked solution
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Step 1. The cilia. They beat and sweep mucus, with the dust and germs it has trapped, up and out of the air passages.
Step 2. Smoking. Damaged cilia cannot clear the mucus, so dust and germs stay in the lungs. The person coughs more and catches lung infections more easily.
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