Welcome to Milburn Country Club. Located in Overland Park, Kansas, and founded in 1917, Milburn is home to the oldest original golf course in the Kansas City area. Our club offers a family-friendly, welcoming atmosphere, with a full range of activities and amenities. In the spring of 2013, Milburn unveiled a new 30,000-square-foot clubhouse.
What Are the Lungs? Your lungs are organs in your chest that allow your body to take in oxygen from the air. They also help remove carbon dioxide (a waste gas that can be toxic) from your body. The lungs' intake of oxygen and removal of carbon dioxide is called gas exchange. Gas exchange is part of breathing. Breathing is a vital function of life; it helps your body work properly. Other organs and tissues also help make breathing possible.
It's a muscle. Your lungs are paired (meaning that you have two of them) The word lung actually means light so that they float.(the only place of attachment in the body is the trachea-so they literally float in the chest). The lung tissue is very porous and made of many small units called alveoli. If stretched out, their area would cover a tennis court! The large area helps the exchange of oxygen gas into the red cells of the blood which will carry the oxygen to other parts of your body. The funny shapes of the lungs are caused by the lungs molding themselves to the surrounding organs in the body. The base is concave to fit over the convex area of the diaphragm. The surface of the lungs lying against the ribs is rounded to match the curve of the ribs. The right lung is thicker and broader than the left.