Upper Tract
The flap that prevents food from entering the trachea.
What is the epiglottis?
IRV + TV + ERV = ?
Vital capacity
Grape looking structures where gas exchange occurs.
What is the alveoli?
What is the structure that are only found in the right lung only? What about the left lung?
Middle lobe and lingula.
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 smallest air conducting passageways of the bronchi.
What are the bronchioles?
Gases and macrophages travel between alveoli via these structures.
What are pores of Kohn?
Patients with this condition are called Pink Puffers.
Emphysema.
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?
Clusters of lymphatic tissues in the pharynx that serves as first line of defense against infection?
Tonsils
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?
Disease of the lungs characterized by bronchospasm resulting to narrowing of airways.
Asthma
The amount of air inhaled during normal breathing
Tidal Volume.
The muscle that allows for breathing to occur.
What is the diaphragm?
What is the unique shape of the cartilage of trachea to prevent collapsing anteriorly and accommodate the esophagus posteriorly?
C shaped