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. 2011 May 31;68(18):3019–3031. doi: 10.1007/s00018-011-0734-2

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Air temperature in the human respiratory tract. The rate of breathing (VE) and the air temperature affect the air temperature in the respiratory tract, but it usually does not reach the temperature of the body core (in moderate ambient temperatures). The arrow for "glottis" and "Seg-1" represent the level of the larynx and the bronchopulmonary segment 1, respectively (adapted from [3])