Resp. A&P
The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide at the cellular level.
What is internal respiration?
The windpipe.
What is the trachea?
The centermost area of the thoracic cavity that is occupied primarily the heart and great vessels.
What is the mediastinum or interpleural space?
High-pitched, sibilant crackling at the end of inspiration.
What are fine crackles?
Takes pictures of small slices of pulmonary tissue, usually to identify a pulmonary lesion.
What is a computed tomography (CT) scan?
The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the lungs and the environment
What are external respirations?
Small, hair-like processes on the outer surfaces of small cells, which produce motion or current in a fluid and sweep dust and debris upward toward the nasal cavity.
What are cilia?
Which lung is heavier and why?
What is the right lung? Because it has 3 lobes and the left lung only has 2.
Loud, bubble sound in early inspiration.
What are coarse crackles?
The type of CT that can be done quickly, over about 30 seconds, and produces faster and more accurate images.
What is a helical or spiral CT?
A tube like structure that is about 5 inches long extending from the base of the skull to the esophagus.
What is the pharynx?
The trachea bifurcates at the carina into these two structures.
What are the right and left mainstem bronchi?
The thin, moist, serous membrane covering the lung.
What is the visceral pleura?
High-pitched musical, whistle-like sound during inspiration or expiration.
What are wheezes (sibiliant wheezes)?
When radiographic contrast material is injected into the pulmonary arteries to visualize the pulmonary vasculature.
What is pulmonary angiography/arteriography?
The technical term for the voice box.
What is the larynx?
Another name for terminal bronchioles.
What are alveolar ducts?
Thin, moist, serous membrane that covers the thoracic cavity.
What is the parietal pleura?
Dry, creaking, grating, low-pitched sound with a machinelike quality during both inspiration and expiration.
What is a pleural friction rub?
This test has both an injection and inhalation component of a radioisotope, often used to diagnose pulmonary embolism.
What is a ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) scan?
The opening between the vocal cords.
What is the glottis or glottic opening?
The grape-like structures at the end of the bronchial tree where gas exchange takes place.
What are alveoli?
Fluid accumulated in the pleural space.
What is pleural effusion?
Deep, running sound that may be continuous; loud, low, coarse sound (like a snore) heard at any point of inspiration or expiration.
What is a sonorous wheeze (rhonchi)?
Pulmonary Function Testing does many things, one of which is to measure the volume of air that can be completely and slowly exhaled after a maximum inhalation, which is also know as?
What is vital capacity? Pg 388