Upper Respiratory
Lower Respiratory
Breathing
Throat
Lagniappe
100
Two openings that allow air to enter and leave the nasal cavity.
What is a nose?
100
Soft, spongy, cone-shaped organs in located in the chest.
What are the lungs?
100
Inhalation
What is inspiration?
100
throat
What is the pharynx?
100
Tumors that occur in the lungs
What is lung cancer?
200
Hollow space behind the nose.
What is the nasal cavity?
200
branched airways leading from the trachea to the air sacs in the lungs
What is the bronchial tree?
200
exhalation
What is expiration
200
Passageway for food and air traveling to the esophagus or to the larynx.
What is Pharynx's job?
200
Sudden movements in the diaphragm.
What are hiccups?
300
Air filled section behind the nasal cavity.
What is the Paranasal Sinus?
300
Potential space between the lungs.
What is Pleural cavity?
300
process of taking in air and expelling it to the lungs
What is breathing?
300
Produces sound of speech.
What are the vocal cords?
300
Caused when sleepy or drowsy which causes a shortage of oxygen
What is yawning?
400
Internal hairs within the nose that prevent entry of large part particles from the air.
What is cilia?
400
Small air sacks in the lungs that produces gas exchange between oxygen and carbon dioxide
What is alveoli?
400
Windpipe
What is the trachea?
400
Connects from the throat to the stomach
What is the esophagus?
400
A flap of cartilage which allows air to enter the larynx
What is epiglottis?
500
Bones that curl out of the lateral walls of the nasal cavity that divides it into passageways.
What is the nasal conchae?
500
Conducts air in and out of the throat; it also houses all of the vocal cords.
What is the larynx?
500
Attaches to the surface of the lungs
What is Visceral Pleura?
500
Largest cartilage connected to the larynx
What is thyroid cartilage (Adam’s apple)?
500
Similar to a cough that occurs in the upper breathing passages
What is a sneeze?
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