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Causes bronchitis, emphysema, and increases the chance of asthma.
What is smoking?
100
An inflation of bronchi caused by infection or exposure to irritants such as tobacco smoke and air pollution.
What is bronchitis?
100
Is a muscle that seperates the chest from the abdominl cavity.
What is diaphragm?
100
Is a flap of tissue that closes when you swallow.
What is epiglottis?
100
Known as the main fuction of the respiratory system.
What is respiration?
200
Asthma and cancer are types of these.
What are respiratory diseases?
200
An inflammation of the lungs caused by a bacterial or viral infection.
What is pneumonia?
200
Known as tha throat.
What is pharynx?
200
This organ helps pump oxygenated blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
200
Is known as the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide that takes place between the air and blood in the lungs.
What is external respiration?
300
Smoke that is inhaled from the air and not from a cigareette.
What is environmental smoke?
300
An inflation of the lining of the lungs and chest cavity.
What is pleurisy?
300
Known as the windpipes
What is trachea?
300
Are tiny air sacks where through whitch the gas exchange of external respiration takes place.
What is alveoli?
300
Oxygen that moves from lungs to the blood and carbon dioxide moves from the blood into the lungs.
What is internal respiration?
400
These line the nasal passages and work to keep out foreign particles.
What is cilia and mucus?
400
An inflamatory condition in which the trachea bronchi become narrowed caused by difficulty in breathing.
What is asthma?
400
the airways that connects the trachea and lungs.
What is the bronchi?
400
Tubes that carry air closer to the site of external respiration.
What is bronchioles?
400
___________ fuels the brain.
What is oxygen?
500
The main opperation of this organ is to diffuse blood throughout the body.
What is the lungs?
500
An inflation of tissues that line the sinuses.
What is sinusitis?
500
Known as the voicebox.
What is larynx?
500
Takes oxygenated blood from the lungs back to the heart.
What is the pulmonary vein?
500
________ moves thwe blood into the cells. __________ moves from the cells into the blood.
What is oxygen? What is carbon dioxide?