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Cilia are small hairs which beat to push the mucus back up the trachea so it can be swallowed and destroyed in the stomach. Clean air then enters the two bronchi, one bronchus going to each lung.

we are always producing mucus but it gets pushed to the back of the throat by microscopic hairs called cilia, and we often ...