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Holes in your skull that aid in the warming, moisturizing and filtering of the air you breathe
What are sinus cavities?
The long muscle below your lungs. It helps you breathe in and out.
What is the diaphragm?
Balloon-like sacs in the lungs that allow the oxygen you need to pass easily from the air you inhale into the blood stream.
What are alveoli?
Air passes through these structures in your nasal cavity where it is cleaned, moistened and brought to the correct temperature.
What are conchae?
Triple: The last part of the pharynx
Triple: What is the laryngopharynx?
This system enables you to breathe; your nose, trachea, and lungs are a few of the parts of this system
What is the respiratory system?
The two tubes that branch out from the trachea.
What are bronchi?
"Strings" or strips of tissue that are pulled tightly across your larynx. They vibrate as air blows by, giving you the ability to make sounds.
What are vocal cords?
A small pink projection hanging downward from your soft palate.
What is the uvula?
Double: This determines your voice's pitch.
To steal a base: This determines your voice's volume.
Double: What are the tension in the vocal cords and how thick and heavy they are?
Steal a base: What is how much air passes across your vocal cords?
Mucus producing tissues, found in many parts of your body.
What are mucus membranes?
Very small thin-walled tubes that carry air to where the lungs can finally use it
What are bronchioles?
A space in your head where much of the dust, pollen, bacteria and other stuff in the air you breathe is filtered out.
What is the nasal cavity?
Tiny motorized "whips" waving back and forth on the cells lining the back of your nose and throughout much of the respiratory tract.
What are cilia?
Double: Another name for the larynx
Double: What is the voice box?
These filter large particles out of the air you breathe. They are in your nose and sometimes have to be trimmed.
What are nose hairs?
These keep your trachea from collapsing.
What are cartilage rings?
Air passes through the three parts of this structure on its way down to the trachea
What is the pharynx?
The uppermost part of the pharynx. It is connected to the inner ear.
What is the nasopharynx?
Double: The part of the pharynx that is closest to your mouth.
Double: What is the oropharynx?
This is slimy. It captures particles out of the air you breathe.
What is mucus?
This is how conchae help warm and moisten the air you breathe.
What is they disrupt the air flow, making the air bounce around and hit the warm, moist tissue in your nasal cavity?
The condition that occurs when your bronchi are swollen, usually because of an infection
What is bronchitis?
Bronchioles fan out to create these little spaces where air enters the alveoili
What are the alveolar ducts?
Single: These are some of the dangers of smoking.
Single: What is it increases your chance of lung cancer, raises your blood pressure, damages your lungs, and is addictive?