Lower Respiratory
This structure is located at the lower end of the trachea, divides into left and right.
What is Bronchi?
Air enters the respiratory system through two oval openings.
What is the nose?
When a foreign object lodges in the throat or windpipe, blocking the flow of air
What is an airway obstruction/choking?
The process of inhaling and exhaling O2 and CO2 in/out of the body
What is breathing?
A term that means no breathing or to stop breathing.
Globular Air sacs found at the end of bronchioles used for exchange of O2 and CO2.
What are Alveoli?
4 Cavities in the skill, filled with air in and around the nasal region.
What are the sinuses?
A serious, sometimes fatal, allergic reaction to an allergen
What is anaphylaxis?
What are the Neural and Chemical Factors?
This term means fast or rapid breathing.
What is tachypnea?
What are the lungs?
This Structure is about 5" long, serves as the common passageway for air and food, and has the common name of throat.
What is Pharynx?
Inflammation of mucous membrane of the trachea and bronchial tubes - produces excess of mucus.
Two types - acute and chronic.
What is bronchitis?
A type of respiratory movement that is defined as "prolonged breath that fills lungs". Believed to be caused by a need for O2 in the blood.
What is yawning?
This term means difficulty breathing
a muscle that separates the abdomen from the chest and allows you to inhale and exhale
What is the diaphragm?
This structure is the passageway from the larynx to each bronchi. About 4 ½ inches long. Composed of C-shaped rings of hyaline cartilage.
What is the trachea?
Gradual damage of lung tissue, specifically thinning and destruction of the alveoli or air sacs
What is emphysema?
The total amount of air the lungs can hold (6 Liters)
What is lung capacity?
A term meaning an abnormally slow breathing rate
What is Bradypnea?
What is the order of the pathway in the lungs from the trachea?
Bronchi, Bronchial Tubes, Bronchioles, and Alveoli
A flap that closes over the opening to the larynx when food is swallowed
What is the Epiglottis?
Collapsed lung due to free air in the chest (outside of the lung). The pressure causes the lung to collapse.
What is a pneumothorax?
The amount of air that cannot be voluntarily expelled out of the lungs
What is residual lung volume?
A term that means normal breathing
What is Eupnea?