Upper Tract
The flap that prevents food from entering the trachea.
What is the epiglottis?
Gas that is taken in when breathing.
What is oxygen?
Grape looking structures where gas exchange occurs.
What is the alveoli?
Name the structures that are only found in the right lung and left lung only?
Lingula and middle lobe
The structure of the nasal cavity that increases surface area and turbulence for improved filtration.
What is nasal conchae?
Explain the relationship of volume to pressure per Boyle's Law
Inversely proportional
Medical name for the "windpipe".
What is the trachea?
The most narrow tubes for air that connect to the alveoli.
What are the bronchioles?
Gases and macrophages travel between alveoli via these structures.
What are pores of Kohn?
Site of gas exchange in respiratory system.
What is alveoli?
At the end of the trachea, we come to a fork in the road for these.
What are the bronchi?
The 2 mechanisms that control breathing.
What are neural factors and chemoreceptors?
The opening to the nostrils.
What is nares?
Reflex that prevent overinflation of the alveolar sacs
What is Hering-Breuer reflex
This makes up the floor of the nasal cavity and the roof of the mouth.
What is the palate?
Number of lobes of the right lung.
What is 3?
Small hair-like projections in the nasal cavity that improve filtration.
What are cilia?
Process of gas exchange using a concentration gradient.
What is diffusion?
The muscle that allows for breathing to occur.
What is the diaphragm?
Cartilage of trachea is uniquely shaped due to food moving through esophagus next door.
What is C shaped?