Upper Respiratory
Designed to be the first entryway for air
What is the Nasal Cavity?
This is the scientific name for the throat.
What is the pharynx?
What are the bronchi?
This long muscle sits under the lungs and assists with breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
What are physical factors?
These two catch the dust, pathogens, etc from entering further down the respiratory tract.
What are hair and mucus?
These are the three parts of the throat - nearest the nose, the mouth, and the larynx.
What are the nasopharynx, the oropharynx, and the laryngopharynx?
The tubes that are smaller and smaller into the lungs.
What are the bronchioles?
When the diaphragm is contracted, air pressure in the lungs goes this down and this is called this.
What is inhalation?
The ability to control your breathing.
What is conscious control?
These whips that move back and forth in the mucus move parrticles stuck in muchus down the digestive tract (wherre it can be destroyed by stomach acid)?
What are cilia?
This important flap opens and closes the proper direction of food or air.
What is the epiglottis?
The smaller and smaller tubes end in little balloon like sacs called this.
What are alveoli?
When the diaphragm is relaxed and air pressure in the lungs goes up, this is called this.
What is exhalation?
The chemical detection of more CO2 in the blood results in this.
What is deeper, more rapid breathing?
This feature of the nasal cavity creates "turbulence" to clean, moisten, and warm air.
What are nasal conchae?
These are used to make different sounds in your voice.
What are vocal cords?
The gases exchanged in the alveoli.
What are oxygen and carbon dioxide?
This lung is the smaller side because of making room for this.
What is the left lung and the heart?
This is the most important concentration detected in the blood as it relates to breathing.
What is CO2?
These lighten the load in the skull.
What are sinus cavities?
Made up of c-shaped rings or cartilage leading into the lungs.
What is the trachea?
This is the inflammation of the lungs where the bronchioles get smalller and breathng is hindered.
What is asthma?
What is the cardiac notch?
The two areas of the brain that control breathing.
What are the medulla and pons?