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Diseases & Disorders
Organs
Breathing & Respiration
100
What do you use to control your asthma?
Inhaler
100
How long in centimeters is the trachea?
12cm
200
How can a person have lung cancer?
Smoking and inhaling the tar in cigarette smoke
200
What are the alveoli?
End of each bronchiole are clusters of tiny, thin-walled sacs
300
What is asthma & what happens to the person when having an asthma attack?
Shortness of breath, wheezing. The bronchial tubes contract quickly.
300
What is the bronchi?
Air that is carried in the lungs by the 2 short tubes
400
What is emphysema?
disease in which the alveoli in the lungs is enlarged
400
What is the larynx?
Airway which 2 parts of horizontal folds of tissue (vocal cord) are attached
500
What does a person with chronic brochitis have to do?
Cough as many times so they can clear the excess mucus from the airway
500
What is the pharynx?
Warm, moist air that enters the tubelike by food, liquid and air
500
What is breathing?
Movement of the chest that brings air into the lungs and removes waste gases