Upper Respiratory
What is the nose?
Muscle responsible for inflating and deflating the lungs
What is the diaphragm?
Structures responsible for gas exchange in the lungs
What are the alveoli?
Virus causing flu-like symptoms and breathing difficulty that largely affected the general population in 2020
What is COVID-19?
The Adam's apple can be found on the anterior side of this structure
What is the larynx?
The trunk of the tree is analogous to this part of the lower respiratory tract
What are capillaries?
Common and avoidable cause of many respiratory and cardiac illnesses
What is smoking?
What is the pharynx?
What is three?
Amount of air inhaled or exhaled during a normal breath
What is tidal volume?
Disease caused by buildup of mucus in the lungs
What is cystic fibrosis?
Another word for inflammation of the hollow spaces found within your facial bones
What is sinusitis?
Name for bump where the heart fits next to the lungs
What is the cardiac notch?
Word for air leftover in lungs at all times even after you exhaled
Bones that separate the nasal cavity into superior, middle, and inferior segments
What are the nasal conchae?
Name for set of bronchi that lead into the bronchioles (be specific)
What are the tertiary bronchi?
Alveoli are made of this type of tissue
What is simple squamous epithelial tissue?
Condition that scuba divers get from trapped gas bubbles if they do not surface properly after a dive
What is the bends?