Respiratory System 1
The membrane-lined cavity behind the nose and mouth, connecting them to the esophagus.
What is pharynx?
This is the opening to the trachea.
What is the larynx?
This is the superior most part of the respiratory system that extends from mouth and nose down to the bottom of the larynx.
What is the upper respiratory tract/airway?
The small blood vessels that surround alveolar sacs.
What are capillaries?
This is the inferior most aspect of the respiratory system that extends from trachea to the lungs and alveoli.
What is lower respiratory tract/airway?
A large tube reinforced by rings of cartilage, extending from the larynx to the bronchial tubes and conveying air to and from the lungs; the windpipe.
What is trachea?
This pulls down and causes air to rush into the chest cavity.
What is the diaphragm?
The small flap of soft tissue that closes off the trachea when you swallow.
What is epiglottis?
Another term for thyroid cartilage.
What is Adam's apple?
The voice box.
What is larynx?
This type of blood carries more CO2 than O2.
What is deoxygenated blood?
Cup-shaped outpouchings lined with epithelium in the lungs.
What are alveoli?
The primary pulmonary vessels.
What are pulmonary veins and arteries?
Malfunction where the bronchial tubes are inflamed.
What is bronchitis?
Exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What is respiration?
A large air filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face.
What is nasal cavity?
The transfer of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the environment and bloodstream in the lungs.
What is external respiration?
Respiration is:
What is, the act of supplying oxygen for the trillions of cells in the body and to remove CO2 gas produced by cellular activities?
Smaller branches from the bronchi that enter the lungs.
What are bronchioles?
A collapsed lung or reduction in the volume of a part of a lung is known as ____.
What is atelectasis?
These flaps of tissue make your voice unique... As air from the lungs pass through them.
What are vocal cords?
The ____ residual capacity is the volume of gas in the lungs at the end of a normal tidal volume exhalation.
What is functional?
Small moving hair like structures that move mucous toward the back of the the throat.
What is cilia?
****Process which the oxygen molecules are loaded onto hemoglobin molecules in the bloodstream.
What is oxygenation?
If blood is oxygenated, it has travelled this circulatory pathway.
What is the pulmonary circuit/circulation?