Anatomy
Commonly called the windpipe, this structure is strengthened by rings of cartilage.
What is the trachea?
Smaller branches from the bronchi that enter the lungs
What are the bronchioles?
This process is the result of air rushing into the lungs
What is inhalation?
A disease that causes inflammation/narrowing of the airways and wheezing.
What is asthma?
What is the number one cause of lung disease/damage?
What is smoking?
What is the larynx?
The structure that warms and filters air as it enters the body.
What is the nose?
The function of the alveoli.
What is gas exchange?
A disease that causes chronic cough, mucous production, and shortness of breath, affects mostly smokers.
What is COPD
Physical activity causes breathing rate to do what?
Increase
What is the name of the large muscle (singular) that pulls air into the lungs?
What is the diaphragm?
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 functions of the nose in the respiratory system.
1. Warm / moisten air
2. Trap dust/ germs
An illness that follows a minor cold and causes cough, shortness of breath & fever.
What is pneumonia?
Spasms of the diaphragm.
What are hiccups?
These air passages divide from the windpipe at the bottom of the trachea.
What are the bronchi?
The organ of the respiratory system?
What are the lungs?
During inhalation what does the diaphragm do?
Contracts / moves down.
Illness that causes a hoarse voice or loss of voice. Often from overusing your voice.
What is laryngitis?
What is the sticky coating that is secreted by cells along your respiratory tract?
What is mucus?
What are the tiny balloon-like sacs that look like bunches of grapes where carbon dioxide in the blood is exchanged for oxygen?
What are the alveoli?
from the air sacs/alveoli, where does the oxygen pass into the blood from which blood vessel
What are the capillaries?
The job of cilia
What are small hairs that move mucous & germs out of the respiratory system?
A genetic illness that causes increased mucous in the respiratory and digestive tracts.
Normal respiratory rate
What is 12-20 breaths per minute.