Structures
What structure serves as the main passageway for air to enter the body?
What are the nares/nostrils?
What gas increases in the blood when a person holds their breath too long?
What is CO2?
What is rapid breathing called?
What is Tachypnea?
What chronic disease causes inflammation and narrowing of the airways, often triggered by allergens or exercise?
What is asthma?
What equipment is used to measure the O2 level in the blood?
What is a pulse oximeter?
Which part of the respiratory system contains the vocal cords?
What process involves moving oxygen into the blood and removing carbon dioxide?
What is internal respiration?
What percentage of the air we breathe is oxygen?
What is 21%
Which disease is characterized by the destruction of alveoli, making it hard to exhale air?
What is Emphysema?
What equipment is used to measure the amount of air a person can breathe in and out?
What is an incentive spirometer?
What tiny air sacs in the lungs are the site of gas exchange?
What are alveoli
What does the diaphragm do during inhalation?
What is flattens and contracts?
What is the normal breathing rate for an adult per minute?
What is 12-20
What is the number 1 contributor to all respiratory disorders?
What is smoking?
What imaging test would be used to diagnose Pneumonia?
What is a chest x-ray?
What structure prevents food and liquids from entering the trachea when swallowing?
What 3 things happen to air as it passes through the nasal cavity before reaching the lungs?
What is warmed, moistened, and filtered?
What is below 95?
What condition occurs when air escapes into the pleural space, causing a collapsed lung?
What is Pneumothorax?
What test would be used to help diagnose bacterial pneumonia?
What is a sputum culture?
The left lung has ____ lobes while the right lung has ____lobes
What is 2 and 3?
Which structure adjusts the airflow and helps produce sound when speaking?
What are the vocal cords?
If you unfolded both of your lungs, along with all of the alveoli inside them, they would stretch out to the size of what?
What is a tennis court?
Which respiratory disease is strongly linked to smoking and results in long-term airflow obstruction?
What is COPD?
What is the best way to diagnose TB?
What is a sputum culture?