Upper Tract
The flap that prevents food from entering the trachea.
What is the epiglottis?
Gas that is taken in when breathing.
What is oxygen?
Grape looking structures where gas exchange occurs.
What is the alveoli?
The lung that is larger.
The right lung?
Narrowing of the airway.
Asthma
Why are infants more prone to developing middle ear infection?
Because their eustachian tubes are more straight.
Gas that is eliminated when breathing.
What is carbon dioxide?
Medical name for the "windpipe".
What is the trachea?
Which of the 2 mainstem /primary bronchi are more commonly involved with aspiration and why? (give one reason)
R side because it is shorter, and more vertical.
Painful swallowing, bad breath, patchy tonsils
Tonsilitis
The number of nasal conchae.
What is 3?
Site of gas exchange in respiratory system.
What is alveoli?
At the end of the trachea, we come to a fork in the road for these.
Bronchi/ mainstem or primary bronchi
Structures with VERY thin walls so molecules can pass through.
What are alveoli?
Also known as "Pink Puffer"
Emphysema
Give one function of the sinuses
Amplify the voice
Lightens the head
Humidify air
Site of gas exchange in cardiovascular system.
What is capillary?
This makes up the floor of the nasal cavity and the roof of the mouth.
What is the palate?
Number of lobes of the right lung.
What is 3?
An URTI characterized by hoarseness of the voice
laryngitis
Small hair-like projections in the nasal cavity that improve filtration.
What are cilia?
These structures have very little gas exchange.
Terminal Bronchioles
The muscle that allows for breathing to occur.
What is the diaphragm?
Cartilage of trachea is uniquely shaped due to food moving through esophagus next door.
What is C shaped?
What does COPD stand for?
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease