Upper Respiratory System
These are hollow areas in your head. They make your head lighters and they continue the warming, moisturizing and filtering processes.
What are sinus cavities/paranasal sinuses?
Name of the large muscle that pulls air into the lungs
What is the diaphragm?
The swelling and inflammation of the bronchial tubes
What is Bronchitis?
This happens when something irritates your nasal passages
What is a sneeze?
Another name for the respiratory membrane.
What is air-blood barrier?
The openings of the 2 eustachian tubes found in this part of the pharynx.
What is nasopharynx?
The large tube that connect the larynx to the bronchus
What is the trachea?
A common syndrome in premature babies whom lack surfactants in lung and thus makes it hard to breathe.
What is Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome?
A function of nose hairs
What is to keep irritants out of the nose?
Total lung capacity of a typical adult male
What is 6 liters?
The scientific name for your throat
What is the pharynx?
The tiny balloon-like sacs where carbon dioxide in the blood is exchanged for oxygen
What are alveoli?
A collapsed lung due to trauma that leads to air in the pleura cavity.
What is pneumothorax?
This happens when something irritates your larynx?
What is cough?
The method that O2 and CO2 exchange.
What is diffusion?
The part of the pharynx that air and food pass through.
What is the oropharynx?
Two tubes that lead from the bottom of the trachea to each lung
What are the bronchi?
Lung condition that causes shortness of breath due to damaged alveoli
What is emphysema?
The sticky, viscous coating that is secreted by goblet cells along your respiratory tract to trap foreign substances?
What is mucus?
A factor that aids 100% efficiency of gas exchange.
What is thin respiratory membrane/large surface area/narrow capillaries/shape of RBCs?
The small process that hangs off the soft palate to aid in closing off the nasal cavity during swallowing.
What is the uvula?
The smaller tubes that branch off each bronchi within the lungs
What are bronchioles?
Chronic inflammatory lung disease caused by high airway resistance or narrowing of the bronchi and bronchioles.
What is asthma?
Immune cells in alveolus to destroy foreign invaders.
What are macrophages?
What can decrease the surface tension in alveolar fluid?
What is surfactant?