Terms To Know
a pair of spongy organs in your chest that are the central part of your respiratory system
What’s a Lung?
Located at the lower respiratory tract begins at this tube and branches into bronchi.
What is the trachea?
These three structures are part of the upper respiratory system.
What are the nasal cavity, pharynx, and larynx?
These muscles lower the ribs during forced exhalation.
What are the internal intercostals?
This type of healthcare professional typically conducts pulmonary function testing, measuring volumes, flow rates, and gas exchange.
Who is a respiratory therapist?
The two pleural membranes forming the linkage between the pulmonary apparatus and the chest wall.
What are the visceral and parietal pleura?
Skeletal framework of respiration including the clavicle, sternum, ribs, scapula, pelvic girdle, and __.
What is the vertebral column?
This flap of cartilage prevents food from entering the airway during swallowing
What is the epiglottis?
During normal exhalation, these two muscles relax.
What are the external intercostals and diaphragm?
Oral intubation prevents vibration of this structure, leading to an absence of phonation.
What are the vocal folds?
The law that states that volume and pressure is opposite to the amount for a specific amount of gas.
What is Boyles Law?
Muscles are found lateral to the ribs and work to elevate the ribcage during inhalation.
What are the external intercostals?
This muscle is considered to be the primary structure involved in inspiration
What is the diaphragm?
During forced exhalation, these three muscles contract.
What are the abdominal muscles, internal intercostals, and transversus thoracis?
A tracheostomy alters speech because airflow bypasses this cavity, reducing the ability to generate normal voice.
What is the vocal tract/oral cavity?
The balance point where the lungs recoil inward and the chest recoil outwards is the same.
What is functional residual capacity (FRC)?
These are the muscles that push the diaphragm upward during expiration.
What are the transverse abdominis, internal oblique, external oblique, and rectus abdominis?
These air-filled cavities in the lungs are primarily responsible for gas exchange
What are alveoli?
this muscle helps in shoulder movement as well as the elevation of the ribs during forced inspiration.
What is the pectoralis major?
RMT applies the same principle used in weightlifting, gradually increasing resistance to strengthen inspiratory and expiratory muscles.
What is the principle of progressive overload?
This breathing uses about 10% inhalation and about 90% exhalation to power phonation.
What is speech breathing?
These two types of rib movements expand the thorax during the process of inspiration.
What are the bucket and pump handle movements?
This structure, also known as the voice box, is essential for phonation as it houses the vocal folds.
What is the larynx?
These neck muscles not only help in inhalation, but also help in moving the vertebral column and head.
What are the scalene muscles?
An SLP might use threshold loading devices or incentive spirometry to improve this skill crucial for longer speech phrases.
What is respiratory support for sustained phonation?