Respiratory System
This is the opening to the Trachea (windpipe)
What is the Larynx
Disease often caused by smoking
Lung Cancer
The small vessels that surround alveolar sacs
What are capillaries
List 2 things in cigarette that are bad for you
1. Tar
2. CO
3. Lead.
4. Arsenic
5. Ammonia
a large tube reinforced by rings of cartilage, extending from the larynx to the bronchial tubes and conveying air to and from the lungs; the windpipe.
What is trachea
This muscle pulls down and causes air to rush into the chest cavity and pushes up to exhale it
Diaphragm
The small flap of soft tissue that closes off the trachea when you swallow
What is epiglottis
This substance lines your entire respiratory system and helps you move pathogens out...either through the nose or down your throat to your stomach
What is mucus
The voicebox
Larynx
This type of blood carries more CO2 than O2
What is deoxygenated blood
Air sacs
Alveoli
The Primary pulmonary blood vessels
Pulmonary Veins, Arteries and capillaries
Malfunction where the bronchial tubes are inflamed
Bronchitis
Gas enters the blood via this process
Diffusion
is a large air filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face.
What is nasal cavity (The nose)
A wall of cartilage, completes the separation between the nares
What is septal cartilage/Nasal Septum
Define Breathing
The act of drawing in oxygen and letting out CO2 through gas exchange in the lungs.
Tertiary airways: very fine tubes inside the lungs that carry air in and out the body
What are Bronchioles
Inflammation of the mucus membrane of one or more of the paranasal sinuses
What is sinusitis
These flaps of tissue make your voice unique...as air passes through them
What are vocal cords
Malfunction where airways narrow
Asthma
Small moving hairlike structures that move mucus toward the back of the the throat.
What is cilia
Illness where the lungs are filled up with fluid
Pneumonia
If blood is oxygenated it has travelled this circulatory pathway
What is the pulmonary circuit