Anatomy
Physiology
Treatments
Smoking
Diseases
100
The structures are found in the upper respiratory tract.
What are the nasal cavities, pharynx, glottis, and larynx?
100
This term is used to describe the exchange of gases that are made between the blood in the systemic capillaries and the tissue fluid.
What is internal respiration?
100
This therapy is necessary to successfully treat a bacterial infection.
What is antibiotic therapy?
100
Passive smokers have this rate of greater risk of developing lung cancer than do non-smokers.
What is 30%?
100
Symptoms include a severe sore throat, high fever , and white patches on the throat.
What is Streptococcus pyogenes (Strep Throat)?
200
These structures are found in the lower respiratory tract.
What are the trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, lungs, alveoli, and pulmonary capillaries?
200
Otherwise known as a "collapsed lung".
What is atelectasis?
200
The formal name for inserting tubes into the ear for drainage.
What is tympanostomy?
200
This is the % people with a 5-year survival rate of lung cancer.
What is 13%?
200
Name two of the other URI.
What are sinusitis, otitis media, tonsillitis and laryngitis?
300
Each lung is enclosed with a double layer of serious membrane called this.
What is pleurae (sing. pleura)?
300
The use of accessory muscles for respiration: muscles of the back, pectoralis minor, sternocleidomastoid muscles, to the anterior chest help to enlarge the size of thoracic cavity that do this function.
What is maximum inspiration?
300
This is often the best treatment for laryngitis.
What is rest?
300
It takes this long after a smoker puffs that nicotine reaches the brain, where it produces a morphine like effect.
What is 7 seconds?
300
These are diseases of the lower respiratory tract. Identify three of them.
What are pneumonia, tuberculosis, pulmonary fibrosis, COPD, emphysema, asthma, and cancer.
400
This lung contains three lobes.
What is the right lung?
400
This is the amount of air we breath normally with each breath.
What is tidal volume?
400
Medical treatment for emphysema include these.
What are bronchodialators, O2, lung reduction surgery and lung transplant?
400
Nicotine paralyzes this in the lungs for 30 minutes or more.
What is cilia?
400
Only a specific population is subject to a rare form of fungus pneumonia caused by the fungus Pneumocystis Jiroveci.
Who are AIDS patients?
500
This tonsil is the primary lymphatic tissue defense for breathing.
What is the pharyngeal tonsil or adnoids?
500
The lungs play a role in controlling this by assisting the renin-angiotension aldosterone pathway.
What is control blood pressure?
500
This term is used when a lobe or entire lung is removed.
What is pneumonectomy?
500
This population actually takes in an average of over ten times of cancer causing substances than cigarette smokers.
What are snuff dippers ?
500
Inhaling particles such as silica, coal dust, asbestos, clay, cement, flour and fiberglass causes this condition.
What is pulmonary fibrosis?