how does our lungs clean themselves from small things that get in them like dust?

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how does our lungs clean themselves from small things that get in them like dust?

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Answers given are good, but no one has NAMED this system of mucous and tiny hairs (cilia) that capture and push stuff out of the lungs, and the name is wonderful.

It is the ___mucociliary elevator___.

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