Anatomy
Breathing
Lung Capacity
Problems
Miscellaneous
100
Traps dust and foreign particles, warms air, and moistens air.
What is nasal cavity (nose)?
100
Another name for inhalation.
What is inspiration?
100
Air that cannot be forced out of lungs is known as this.
What is residual volume?
100
Caused by damage to the fragile connections between alveoli.
What is emphysema?
100
Type, location, and spread of this determines treatment options.
What is lung cancer?
200
Adam's apple
What is the larynx?
200
Large dome-shaped muscle at the bottom of the chest cavity.
What is the diaphragm?
200
This increases from birth to adulthood.
What is lung capacity?
200
Usually caused by a virus.
What is acute bronchitis?
200
Supplying cells with oxygen and removing carbon dioxide.
What is respiration or the function of the respiratory system?
300
The tube leading to the lungs.
What is the trachea?
300
Muscles do this during exhalation.
What is relax?
300
Amount of air being inhaled and exhaled without extra effort is known as this.
What is tidal volume?
300
Airways are persistently inflamed and may occasionally spasm.
What is asthma?
300
Respiration involves this many processes.
What is 3?
400
Bronchi branch many times into these.
What are bronchioles?
400
The ribs go up and out during this process.
What is inhalation?
400
Inspiratory reserve volume may be as much as this many times more than tidal volume.
What is 6?
400
Slowly-progressive pneumonia.
What is tuberculosis?
400
Passageway for food and air.
What is the pharynx?
500
The expression, "Food went down the wrong pipe," could be used to describe a minor malfunctioning of this.
What is the epiglottis?
500
Gas exchange occurs between the alveoli and these microscopic blood vessels.
What are capillaries?
500
Shorter people, smokers, people who live at lower altitudes, and obese people.
Who are people with lower lung capacities (tidal volumes).
500
COPD.
What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
500
Separates the nostrils.
What is the septum?
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