3) Say an individual has a respiratory disease that causes less CO2 to be exhaled with...

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3) Say an individual has a respiratory diseasethat causes less CO2 to be exhaled with each breath.

      a) Would thistend to cause acidosis or alkalosis of the extracellular fluid?Why?

      b) Over the longterm, how would the body compensate to bring pH back to normal,even though problems with CO2 exhalation remain?

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3 An individual has a respiratory disease like restrictive lung disorder or Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder COPD then it causes less CO2 to be exhaled with each breadth due to reduced pulmonary ventilation This reduced pulmonary ventilation of reduced effective alveolar ventiltion the arterial pCO2 is increased above the normal value40    See Answer
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