Anatomical Parts
Symptoms
Treatments
Functions of the Respiratory System
Risks of This Disease
100
Each of the pair of organs situated within the rib cage. Oxygen passes into the blood and carbon dioxide is removed.
What are the lungs?
100
Discomfort caused when your heart muscle doesn't get enough oxygen-rich blood. It may feel like pressure or squeezing in your chest.
What is chest pain?
100
They prevent existing blood clots from growing larger and help prevent new ones from developing.
What is anticoagulant medicine?
100
Air is inhaled through the nasal and the nose and mouth. It moves through the pharynx, larynx, and trachea into the lungs. Then air is exhaled, flowing back through the same pathway.
What is pulmonary ventilation?
100
Pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancers, and many cancers with metastasis can increase levels of substances that help blood clot, and chemotherapy further increases the risk.
What is cancer?
200
Bronchial tubes divide into smaller and smaller branches called bronchioles. The airways end in air sacs called alveoli where oxygen moves into the blood.
What is the airway to the lungs?
200
Occurs when you take more breaths than normal in a given minute. When a person breathes rapidly, it is sometimes called hyperventilation.
What is rapid breathing?
200
Can dissolve a blood clot quickly but also increase the risk of severe bleeding.
What is thrombotic medicine?
200
Oxygen from inhaled air diffuses from the alveoli into pulmonary capillaries surrounding them. Carbon dioxide from deoxygenated blood diffuses from the capillaries into the alveoli, and is expelled through exhalation.
What is a external respiration?
200
Excess weight increases the risk of blood clots particularly in women who smoke or have high blood pressure.
What is being overweight?
300
Contribute to inhalation and exhalation.
What is the muscles of respiration?
300
When bloody mucus from the lungs and throat is spit up.
What is spitting up blood?
300
It is inserted into the large central vein of the body. This filter can help prevent blood clots from reaching the lungs.
What is the vena cava filter?
300
When oxygenated blood reaches the narrow capillaries, the red blood cells release the oxygen.The deoxygenated blood carries the carbon dioxide back to the lungs for release.
What is internal respiration?
300
Cardiovascular disease, specifically heart failure, makes clot formation more likely.
What is heart disease?
400
the membrane-lined cavity behind the nose and mouth, which connects them to the esophagus.
What is the pharynx?
400
Normal pulse oximeter readings range from 95 to 100 percent.
What is low oxygen?
400
A thin tube called a catheter will suction large clots out of your artery.
What is clot removal?
400
When these cords are pushed together, air passing between them makes them vibrate, creating sound.
What is vocal cords?
400
The weight of the baby pressing on veins in the pelvis can slow blood return from the legs. Clots are more likely to form when blood slows or pools.
What is pregnancy?
500
A large membranous tube reinforced by rings of cartilage, extending from the larynx to the bronchial tubes and conveying air to and from the lungs.
What is the trachea?
500
These include swelling of the leg or along a vein in the leg, pain or tenderness in the leg, a feeling of increased warmth in the area of the leg that's swollen or tender, and red or discolored skin on the affected leg.
What is deep vein thrombosis?
500
Doctors will have to open up the patient but only in emergency situations when a person is in shock or medications aren’t working to break up the clot.
What is open surgery?
500
The process begins with olfactory fibers that line the nasal cavities inside the nose. A signal is sent to the brain: neurons take the signal from the nasal cavities through openings in the ethmoid bone, and then to the olfactory bulbs.
What is olfaction?
500
The estrogen in birth control pills and in hormone replacement therapy can increase clotting factors in your blood, especially if you smoke or are overweight.
What is supplemental estrogen?
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