Lower Respiratory Tract
Lower Respiratory Tract
What consists of bony & cartilaginous framework overlaid by skin?
What is the nose?
Has internal and external functions
The nose
Any infection localized in the mucosa of the upper respiratory tract
What is Upper Respiratory Infection?
Connective tissue type that has the consistency of firm plastic.
What is cartilage?
Produces a huge number of individual airways
What is the Bronchi?
Serves as the passageway for air going to and from the lungs.
What is the nose?
What is divided into 2 tracts
Raspatory System
Surgical procedure used to remove inflamed or enlarged tonsillar tissue
What is Tonsillectomy?
The "voice box".
What is the Larynx?
There is what? at the terminal Bronchial Trees
Microscopic air spaces
What part of the nose has a rich blood supply?
What is the septum?
The Larynx is located where
Upper raspatory tract
A range of conditions that interfere with the lower Respiratory Tract functions of
Gas exchange and ventilation
Microscopic air spaces at terminals of bronchial trees.
Alveoli
Bronchioles conduct air from and to the alveoli. True or False
True!
Largest cartilage of the larynx.
What is the throid?
Within each cells mitochondria there is a process called
Cellular respiration
A form of bacterial pneumonia caused by infection with Legionella pneumophila organism.
What is Legionnaires' disease
Membrane that lines tubes of the respiratory tree.
What is the respiratory mucosa?
True or false
False, The Trachea does this.
Extends from the hyoid bone to the esophagus.
What is the laryngopharynx?
All segments of the _____ tree are part of the lower respiatory
Bronchial
Who is Sir Richard Doll?
Serous membrane in thoracic vacity.
What is the pleura?