Upper Respiratory Tract
This part of the upper respiratory tract protrudes from the face - consists of a bony and cartilaginous frame work overlaid by skin containing many sebaceous glands.
What is the nose?
The hollow nasal cavity separated by a midline partition, into right and left cavities.
What is the septum?
Nerve responsible for smell.
What is the olfactory nerve?
The throat.
What is the pharynx?
This surface of each lung lies against the ribs and is rounded to match the contours of the thoracic cavity.
What is the costal surface?
The nose is surrounded by this, both laterally and inferiorly at its base.
What is the maxilla?
Epistaxis is also known as a:
What is a nosebleed?
Pharyngeal tonsils when they become enlarged.
What are adenoids?
The windpipe.
What is the trachea?
Left and right branch from trachea, one to each lung.
What is the primary bronchi?
The roof of the mouth and the floor of the nose are formed by these bones.
What are palatine bones?
Each nasal cavity is divided into three passageways named the superior, middle and interior:
What are meatuses?
The voice box.
What is the larynx?
C- shaped rings of ____________ at regular intervals, make up most of the wall of the trachea.
What is cartilage?
Portion of the respiratory tract outside the thoracic cavity. (Upper or lower?)
What is upper?
Sometimes the palatines bones fail to unite completely and produce a condition called:
What is cleft palate?
The four pairs of these, are air-containing spaces that lighten the wright of the skull and open or drain, into the nasal cavity.
What are paranasal sinuses?
One of two nerves that doesn't connect to the brain stem.
What is either the optic nerve or olfactory nerve?
These cone-shaped organs, large enough to fill the pleura portion of the thoracic cavity completely.
What are the lungs?
Single layer of cells that makes up the wall of the alveoli.
What is the respiratory membrane?
The roof of the nose is separated from the cranial cavity by a portion of the ethmoid bone called the:
What is the cribriform plate?
This mucosa membrane has a ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium rich in goblet cells.
What is the respiratory mucosa?
Loss of smell.
What is Anosmia?
The broad inferior surface of the lung, which rests on the diaphragm, constitutes the:
What is base?
Mucus-covered membrane that lines tubes of the respiratory tree.
What is respiratory mucosa?