Respiratory Anatomy
The area in which air is taken in, warmed, moisturized, and filtered.
What is the nasal cavity?
Another name for the voice box is:
What is Larynx?
What is the sticky coating that is secreted by cells along your respiratory tract?
What is mucus?
This is the main organ of the respiratory system.
What are the lungs?
This is the number one cause of lung disease/damage.
What is smoking?
The part of the respiratory system that is connected to the nose and mouth and is shared with the digestive system.
What is the Pharynx?
The large muscle that controls air flow into and out of the lungs
What is the Diaphragm?
Name two thing that nose hairs do.
1. Keeps pathogens out of the nose (filters)
2. Warms the air going in (humidifies)
The diaphragm contracts during this phase of breathing.
What is inhalation?
This is the harmful growth of cells in the lungs causing tumors.
What is lung cancer?
Commonly called the windpipe, this structure is strengthened by rings of cartilage.
What is the Trachea?
Tiny hair-like structures found inside the lungs that move microbes and debris out of the lungs.
What are cilia?
The only area of the lungs where gas exchange happens.
What is in the alveoli?
This gas is exchanged from the capillaries to the alveoli.
What is carbon dioxide?
The condition where a person's airways become inflamed, narrow, and swollen and extra mucus is produced?
What is Asthma?
These air passages split at the bottom of the trachea and go into the lungs.
What is the bronchi?
What are the smaller air passages that branch off each bronchi within the lungs?
What are the Bronchioles?
The hollow muscular organ forming an air passage to the lungs and holding the vocal cords?
What is the Larynx?
The movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs.
What is respiration?
Inflammation of the bronchial tubes causing people to cough up thick mucus.
What is bronchitis?
These are tiny balloon-like sacs where gas exchange occurs.
What are alveoli?
This is a flap that covers the windpipe and helps keep food and water from entering the lungs.
What is the epiglottis?
These surround our alveoli and allow gas exchange to occur between the respiratory and circulatory systems.
What are the pulmonary capillaries?
The spontaneous exchange of oxygen for carbon dioxide is called?
What is gas exchange or diffusion?
A group of diseases that cause airflow blockage and breathing-related problems.
What is COPD?