Cardio Anatomy
Respiratory Anatomy
Respiratory Physiology
Disease Diary
Potpourri
100
Chamber of the heart receiving deoxygenated blood
What is the right atrium?
100
spell the anatomical term for voicebox
What is the larynx?
100
process of moving air in and out
What is ventilation?
100
fluid in the lungs
What is pneumonia?
100
Spell inflammation of the sinuses
What is sinusitis?
200
Only artery in the body carrying deoxygenated blood
What is the pulmonary artery?
200
two skeletal muscles responsible for breathing
What are the intercostals and diaphragm?
200
Type of respiration involving gas excvhange between blood and alveoli
What is external respiration?
200
genetic disorder causing excessively thick mucus in the bronchial passageways
What is Cystic Fibrosis?
200
Molecule carrying oxygen on red blood cells
What is hemoglobin?
300
valves closing to cause the second heart sound
What are the semilunar valves?
300
Name of nerve controlling the diaphragm
What is the Phrenic nerve?
300
Process of oxygen crossing avleoli epithelium into blood capillaries
What is diffusion?
300
4th leading cause of death; includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis
What is COPD?
300
Blood vessel carrying oxygenated blood into the left atrium of the heart
What is the pulmonary vein?
400
connective tissue layer protecting the heart
What is the pericardium/ epicardium?
400
Type of epithelial tissue found in the trachea and alveoli, respectively
What is pseudostratified and simple squamous?
400
Respiratory volume describing amount of total exchangeable air
What is vital (lung) capacity?
400
disorder caused by a lack of or decreased amount of fluid between the visceral and parietal pleural membranes
What is pleurisy?
400
air passageway connecting to alveoli
What is a bronchiole?
500
Order of vessels from lowest to highest pressure
What is veins, veinules, capillary beds, arterioles, arteries
500
The order of structures through which air passesd from oral cavity to alveoli
What is the oral cavity, oropharynx, laryngopharynx, larynx, trachea, primary bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli?
500
Respiratory volume higher in patients with emphysema
What is the functional residual capacity (FRC)? Will also accept residual capacity (RV)
500
device used to regulate the electrical conducting system in a person suffering from heart damage
What is a pacemaker?
500
Spell maneuvar used to forcibly remove food from an airway
What is the Heimlich?
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