Conducting Zone
The only externally visible part of the respiratory system.
What is the nose?
The number of lungs a healthy human has.
What is 2?
The molecule that carries oxygen in the red blood cell.
What is hemoglobin?
Breathing involves inspiration and this event.
What is expiration?
What you are breathing right now.
What is air or oxygen or carbon dioxide or water vapor or any other gas?
The type of tissue that lines the oropharynx.
What is stratified squamous?
The presence of these structures define the respiratory zone.
What are alveoli?
A rightward shift in the hemoglobin saturation curve can occur when this happens to levels of BPG.
What is increases?
As volume of the thoracic cavity increases, this happens to the intrapulmonary pressure.
The main regulatory chemical for respiration.
What is carbon dioxide?
The opening between the vocal folds.
What is the glottis?
These structures connect alveoli and equalize pressure.
What are alveolar pores?
What happens to H+ concentration to cause a leftward shift of the hemoglobin-oxygen saturation curve?
Decrease
The atmospheric pressure at sea level. Include units.
What is 760mmHg?
The scientist that the Law of Partial Pressures was named after.
Who is Dalton?
The last tracheal cartilage where the trachea branches into two bronchi.
What is the carina?
The number of bronchopulmonary segments in the right lung.
What is 10?
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The volume of the conducting respiratory passages (150ml).
What is anatomical dead space?
How the majority of carbon dioxide is transported in the blood.
What is bicarbonate (HCO3-)?
The opening to the oral cavity.
What is the isthmus of the fauces?
The cells in the lung that secrete surfactant.
What are type II cuboidal cells?
The effect where a declining pH weakens the hemoglobin-oxygen bond.
What is the Bohr effect?
A disease category that increases airway resistance.
What is an obstructive pulmonary disease?
The mmHg of oxygen in the atmosphere.
What is 159 mmHg?