Organs
This main pathway carries air from the throat down to the lungs.
What is Trachea (windpipe)?
Filter, warms, and moistens incoming air using tiny hairs and mucus.
What is nasal cavity?
A chronic condition where the airways become inflamed, swollen, and narrowed, often triggered by allergies, exercise, or cold air.
What is Asthma?
This type of handheld device delivers fast-acting medication directly to the airways during an asthma attack.
What is Inhaler?
The biological network of organs, tissues, and airways that allows your body to breathe and exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide with the environment.
What is Respiratory system?
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These two branching tubes lead from the trachea into the left and right lungs.
What is Bronchi (bronchial tubes)?
The lungs take in oxygen and release ________
What is Carbon dioxide?
What long-term lung disease is commonly caused by smoking?
What is COPD?
A medical treatment provides extra gas through tubes or a mask to help breathe.
What is Oxygen therapy?
The scientific term for inhaling and exhaling air.
What is Pulmonary ventilation (breathing)?
This large, dome-shaped muscle below the lungs contracts and flattens to help you breathe in.
What is Diaphragm?
Tiny receptors in the nasal cavity allow the respiratory system to contribute to this sense.
What is Olfaction (smell)?
What lung infection causes the air sacs to fill with fluid or pus?
What is Pneumonia?
A surgical procedure is performed to replace a diseased lung with a healthy one from a donor.
What is A lung transplant?
This term describes the maximum amount of air a person can expel from the lungs after a maximum inhalation.
What is Vital Capacity?
These tiny, grape-like air sacs inside the lungs are where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.
What is Alveoli?
Often called the voice box, this structure obtains the vocal cords and produces sound when air passes over them
What is Epiglottis?
What contagious bacterial infection that most commonly attacks the lungs?
What is Tuberculosis?
This class of medications is commonly prescribed to reduce inflammation and swelling in the airways.
What is Anti-inflammatories?
This term refers to the total volume of air inspired and expired during normal quiet breathing.
What is Tidal volume?
This flap of tissue folds over the windpipe during swallowing to prevent food from entering the airway.
What is Epiglottis?
This process, occurring in the alveoli, allows oxygen to move into the blood and carbon dioxide to move out.
What is diffusion?
An inherited genetic disease that causes the body to produce thick, sticky mucus, which builds up and damages organs like the lungs and pancreas
What is Cystic Fibrosis?
The type of therapy uses special breathing exercises to help people with chronic lung issues.
What is Pulmonary rehabilitation?
This term defines the small amount of air that always remains in the lungs to keep the aveoli from collapsing.
What is Residual volume?