SECTION I
The primary organ responsible for gas exchange in the respiratory system
What are the lungs?
What is the main function of the nose in respiration?
What is filtering, warming, and humidifying incoming air?
What type of pharynx contains the pharyngeal tonsil?
What is nasopharynx?
What do type 2 alveolar cells produce surfactant?
What is reduce surface tension to prevent alveoli from collapsing?
What is the amount of air inhaled or exhaled during a normal, quiet breath called?
What is tidal volume?
What structure connects the larynx to the bronchi?
What is the trachea?
What is the main function of the tracheal cartilage rings?
What is preventing the trachea from collapsing?
What is the process of breathing air into the lungs called?
What is inspiration?
Which blood protein carries most of the oxygen in the blood?
What is hemoglobin?
What is the maximum amount of air a person can exhale after taking the deepest possible breath called?
What is vital capacity?
What flap of cartilage prevents food from entering the airway during swallowing?
What is the epiglottis?
What type of epithelium is nasopharynx lined with?
What is pseudostratified columnar epithelium?
During inhalation, does the diaphragm contract or relax?
What is contract?
What are the three major cartilages of the larynx?
What are the thyroid, cricoid, epiglottis cartilages?
What is the amount of air remaining in the lungs after maximal forced expiration called?
What is residual volume?
What are the tiny air sacs in the lungs where gas exchange occurs called?
What are alveoli?
What cells produce surfactant in the alveoli?
What are type II alveolar cells?
During inhalation, what happens to the volume of the thoracic cavity?
What is that it increases?
What type of epithelium is oropharynx lined with?
What is nonkeratinized stratified squamous epithelium ?
What is the total amount of air the lungs can hold after a maximal inspiration called?
What is total lung capacity?
What is the name of the structure where the trachea divides into the right and left main bronchi?
What is the carina?
What is the function of type I alveolar cells?
What is allowing gas exchange through a thin respiratory membrane?
According to Boyle's law, what happens to gas pressure when volume increases, assuming temperature remains constant?
What is that pressure decreases?
Why is the oropharynx lined by that epithelium?
What is a common pathway for food and air?
What is the volume of air that remains in the conducting passages and does not participate directly in gas exchange called?
What is anatomical dead space?