Upper Respiratory
System
System
The first two parts of the respiratory system, often forgotten until blocked.
What are the nose and mouth?
A pair of inflatable balloon like structures inside the human chest that facilitate oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange.
What are the lungs?
A method of relaxation and anxiety control that was once promoted by doctors.
What is smoking?
Dr. Henry Jay Heimlech.
Who is the man who discovered the life saving Heimlech maneuver?
We have about 600 million of these.
What are alveoli?
The nasal cavity, pharynx and conchae.
What are the structures of the respiratory system that warm, clean, and moisten the air we breathe?
A tube for conducting oxygen that runs parallel with the esophagus before it attaches to the bronchi.
It is both addictive and poisonous causing the user to crave it and also raising their blood pressure.
What is nicotine?
An infection of the bronchioles.
What is bronchitis?
We have about 30,000 of these coming of the right and left bronchi and leading to the alveolar ducts.
What are bronchioles?
The last part of the pharynx.
What is the laryngopharynx?
The two tubes that branch out from the trachea and attach to the lungs.
What are the bronchi?
Burst alveoli and destroyed cilia.
What are two harmful effects of smoking?
Speaking of voices, women's are generally thinner and shorter than men's.
What are vocal cords?
The molecules your alveoli pull from the air to be diffused into your bloodstream.
What is oxygen?
The uppermost part of the pharynx, connected to the inner ear.
What is the nasopharynx?
Bronchioles fan out to create these little spaces where air enters the alveoli.
What are the alveolar ducts?
Work harder to breathe and breathe more rapidly.
What are two ways smokers must compensate for the damage to their lungs?
Just below your voice box on your trachea, these can be felt.
What are cartilage rings?
The waste product your alveoli remove from the bloodstream and is expelled.
What is carbon dioxide?
Two structures or ways the body cleans, moistens, and warms the air we breathe.
What are mucous membranes and cilia?
Balloon like sacs in the lungs that allow the oxygen you need to pass easily from the air you inhale into the bloodstream.
Work for and obtain "runner's high."
What is a better way to manage anxiety?
The amount of air you can breathe into your lungs is referred to as this.
What is lung capacity?
Lung capacity can be improved by this action.
What is exercise?