Slows down inhaled air so it can be warmed and moistened.
What are turbinates?
100
Muscles between the ribs that pull the ribs up and out during breathing.
What are intercostal muscles?
100
Chronic, permanent enlargement and loss of elasticity of the bronchioles.
What is Bronchiectasis
100
Bluish-gray discoloration of the skin.
What is cyanosis
100
Suppress the cough enter in the brain.
What are Antitussive drugs?
200
Also known as the throat and air and food pass through here.
What is the pharynx?
200
Movement of air in and out of the lugs.
What is Ventilation?
200
Inherited, eventually fatal disease caused by a recessive gene. It affects the exocrine cells and respiratory system. Mucus is thick and blocks alveoli, causing dyspnea.
What is Cystic Fibrosis.
200
Difficult, labored, or painful respirations.
What is dyspnea?
200
Reduce the thickness of sputum so that it can be coughed up.
What are expectorant drugs?
300
Air sacs
What is alveoli?
300
The nerve that causes the diaphragm to contract.
What is the Phrenic nerve
300
Severe and sometimes fatal bacterial infection with flu-like symptoms. Was first identified in 1976 at the American Legion Convention when many people became sick.
What is Legionnaire's Disease
300
Abnormally slow respirations?
What is Bradypnea?
300
Block the immune system from causing inflammation in the lung.
What are Corticosteroid drugs?
400
The trachea splits into this.
What are bronchi?
400
Movement of oxygen from the blood into the cells and movement of carbon dioxide from the cells into the blood.
What is Internal Respiration
400
Blockage of a pulmonary artery by an embolus (blood clot).
What is pulmonary embolism?
400
The need to be propped up in an upright or semi-upright position in order to breathe.
What is Orthopnea?
400
Block leukotriene, which causes inflammation and edema.
What Leukotriene receptor blocker drugs?
500
Your windpipe
What is the trachea?
500
Oxygen is used by the cell to produce energy in the process of metabolism.
What is Cellular respiration?
500
Incomplete expansion or collapse of part or all of a lung due to mucus, tumor, trauma, or a foreign body that blocks the bronchus.
What is Atelectasis
500
Abnormally rapid rate of breathing.
What is Tachypnea?
500
Stabilize mast cells and prevent them from releasing histamine that causes bronchospasm during an allergic reaction.