Vocab
What is the system that serves to exchange gases between the air and the blood?
Respiratory System
What are the hair-like projections on the cells lining the respiratory system are called?
Cilia
What 2 body systems share the function of supplying an adequate amount of oxygen to all the cells of the body?
Respiratory and Circulatory Systems
This disorder occurs while sleeping and can cause loud snoring or gasping for air.
Sleep apnea
What is the secretion produced by the membrane lining of the respiratory tract?
Mucous
What is the term for difficult or labored breathing?
Dyspnea
What keeps the foods and fluids out of the trachea?
Epiglottis
What increases the vertical size of the chest cavity?
Contraction of the diaphragm
This disorder causes air to get trapped in the alveloi and makes it difficult to breath or perform daily activities. It is not reversible.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder
COPD
Where are the vocal cords located?
Larynx
What is the term for temporary cessation of respiration?
Apnea
What divides the nose into two nostrils?
Nasal Septum
These are lined with mucous membranes to warm and moisten the air and they also provide resonance to the voice.
Sinuses
This disorder can be caused by baceria, viruses, fungi, or aspiration.
Pneumonia
True or False, the trachea is located above the larynx.
False
This suffix means voice or sound.
-phonia
What do the base of the lungs rest on?
Diaphragm
Passing oxygen from the respiratory system into the cirlculatory system is the job of what?
Alveoli
This disorder can cause night sweats, weight loss, fatigue, fever, and chronic cough.
Tuberculosis
What is the waste product of respiration?
Carbon Dioxide
This suffix means breathing.
-pnea
What is the space between the lungs?
Mediastinum
Paralysis of the diaphragm would cause respiratory difficulty because it would be impossible to do what?
Increase and decrease the size of the chest cavity
This disorder is typically caused by a virus that attacks the upper airway and causes cough, runny nose, and increased mucus production.
Common cold
Faster and deeper respirations are ordered by the respiratory center in the brain when what accumulates in the blood stream?
Carbon Dioxide