lower respiratory tract
True or false: Lungs exchange gas between air and blood
True
What 3 main parts of make up the upper respiratory tract?
What is the nose, pharynx, and larynx
where is the parietal pleura located in the posterior
what is both sides of the posterior
an inflamation of mucosa of the nasal cavity.
what is Rhinitis
What are the two structural divisions of the respiratory system?
: What is upper and lower tracts?
The trachea divides at the lower end into what?
What is primary bronchi
How many passageways is the naval cavity divided into?
superior, middle, and inferior meatuses).
What gas exchange happens during respiration
Answer oxygen to carbon dioxide
: What are the symptoms of Tonsillitis. A
What is enlargement of tonsils and adenoids, difficulty breathing, and fatigue?
What is directly above the Larynx?
What is Pharynx?
A tube about 11cm long that extends form the larynx in the neck to the primary bronchi in the thoracic cavity
What is the Trachea
The palatine tonsils and lingual tonsils are in which part of the upper respiratory tract?
What is the Pharynx (Throat).
What separates the 3 divisons of the Thoratic cavities
Answer: Partitions of pleura.
Define a Tonsillectomy
What is the removal of inflamed tonsils and adenoids?
Where are the bronchioles?
The thoracic cavity has three divisions, separated from one another by partitions of ?
What is the Pleura
What section of the Pharynx is located directly behind the nasal cavity?
What is the nasopharynx
What happens to the Thorax when your chest is raised
Answer: it becomes larger
What is deviated septum?
What is a synonym for nosebleeds?
Name two different accessory structures excluding the respiratory muscles.
What is oral cavity and rib cage?
this covers the lungs and outer surfaces of the lungs and adheres to them as much as the skin of an apple adheres to the apple.
What is Visceral pleura
What part of the ethmoid bone separates the nose from the cranial cavity?
What is the cribriform plate
What can happen to the sternum and the ribs as one ages?
Answer: they become more fixed and less able to move
What is a synonym for nosebleeds?
What is Epistaxis?
Name all of the parts of the lungs
What is: Left and right bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, alveolar duct, and alveolar sac.