The cartilaginous tube that extends from the pharynx to the main bronchi.
What is the trachea?
100
The nose is lined with small hairs which are called
What are cilia?
100
ABG
What is arterial blood gas?
100
Rapid rate of respiration
What is tachypnea?
200
-pnea
What is breathing?
200
The inferior portion of the trachea branches off into two major airways called...
What are the right and left bronchi?
200
This coats the lining of the nasal cavity to filter out particles too small to be blocked by cilia.
What is mucus?
200
TV
What is tidal volume?
200
Abnormal slowness of respiration
What is bradypnea?
300
-ptysis
What is spitting?
300
Located between the pharynx and trachea.
What is the larynx?
300
This organ brings in fresh, oxygen-enriched air and gets ride of waste carbon dioxide made by cells in the body.
What are the lungs?
300
CO2
What is carbon dioxide?
300
Difficult or painful respiration
What is dyspnea?
400
Rhin/o
What is nose?
400
The space between the vocal cords is called...
What is the glottis?
400
This flaplike structure swings downward during swallowing to cover the larynx so food does not enter the trachea and the lungs.
What is the larynx?
400
SOB
What is shortness of breath?
400
cessation of respiration; short periods of apnea, normally occur during sleep
What is apnea?
500
Pneumon/o
What is air/lung?
500
These are located on either flank of the heart
What are the lungs?
500
This enters the respiratory system through the nose and travels down through the larynx and pharynx and into the lungs where a gas exchange takes place.
What is oxygen?
500
TB
What is tuberculosis?
500
Rhythmic respiratory pattern in which a variation in depth of respiration alternates with periods of apnea