Functions
Uvula
Respiratory Pathophysiology
Characteristics
Nose
100
This is inhalation and exhalation?
What is ventilation?
100
The lower caudal end of the nasopharynx.
What is a uvula?
100
This causes black lungs.
What is coal exposure?
100
This is automatic.
What is breathing?
100
A nose is made out of this.
What is cartilage?
200
This is when you make a sudden involuntary expulsion of air from the nose and mouth.
What is a sneeze?
200
This means of or like a tail.
What is caudal?
200
This is the genetic defect of the chloride ion.
What is cystic fibrosis?
200
4-5 minutes of no air.
What is loss of consciousness?
200
This is a large air filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face.
What is a nasal cavity?
300
Ex. - Sneezing, Laughing, Coughing, etc.
What are non-breathing air movements?
300
The upper part of the throat that lies behind the nose.
What is the nasopharynx?
300
The disordered physiological processes associated with disease or injury.
What does Pathophysiology mean?
300
7-8 minutes no air.
What is brain damage?
300
These are a group of four paired air-filled spaces that surround the nasal cavity.
What is paranasal sinus?
400
This be sound production and non-breathing air movements.
What are the two additional functions?
400
Scientific name for a small rounded mass of a substance, especially of chewed food at the moment of swallowing.
What is bolus?
400
A disease is a common name for any lung disease that develops from inhaling coal dust.
What is black lung?
400
10+ minutes no air.
What is impending death?
400
This is a funnel shaped tube that is 15 cm long.
What is the Nasopharynx?
500
Alveoli --> blood & blood --> tissues.
What is gas exchange?
500
When the uvula and soft palate elevate to block nasal cavity to keep bolus from entering the nasal cavity.
What is swallowing?
500
A defect (mutation) in a gene changes a protein that regulates the movement of salt in and out of cells.
What is a cystic fibrosis?
500
The process of taking air into and expelling it from the lungs.
What is breathing?
500
This is a mass of lymphatic tissue situated posterior to the nasal cavity, in the roof of the nasopharynx, where the nose blends into the throat.
What are pharyngeal tonsils?
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