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100
Air is filtered here by cilia and mucous
What is the nose?
100
This is also known as our voice box.
What is the larynx?
100
These are immune responses to foreign substances in the environment.
What is allergies?
100
This is a disease in which tissues of the lungs are destroyed by the growth of a tumor.
What is lung cancer?
100
The number 1 cancer killer in the US
What is lung cancer?
200
The two cone shaped organs where air is exchanged
What is the lungs?
200
This is the dome shaped muscles that separates the lungs from the abdomen.
What is diaphragm?
200
A disease in which the alveoli are damaged or destroyed...also known as COPD.
What is emphysema?
200
This is a virus caused by breathing in air droplets or picking it up from an object.
What is influenza?
200
This lung is smaller than the other.
What is left lung?
300
The flap of tissue that prevents food from going down into the lungs.
What is the epiglottis?
300
This is also known as the throat.
What is the pharynx?
300
This is a swelling of the bronchi due to an infection.
What is bronchitis?
300
An inflammatory disease that causes bronchi to become blocked or narrow.
What is asthma?
300
A cigarette takes this amount of minutes off your life.
What is 8 minutes?
400
These are the tiny airs sacs in which oxygen diffuses into the capillaries.
What is alveoli?
400
These tubes carry the air further into the lungs.
What is the bronchi?
400
This is an infection caused by either a virus or bacteria causing inflammation in the alveoli.
What is pneumonia?
400
A bacterial lung infection which causes dry cough in early stages and chest pain later on.
What is tuberculosis?
400
THe amount of people in the US with asthma. Million
What is 20 million?
500
This is also known as the windpipe.
What is the trachea?
500
We can also breathe through this although it doesn't filter the air as well as the nose.
What is the mouth?
500
Pneumonia that is caused when one inhales food or drink into the lungs.
What is aspiration pneumonia?
500
Pneumonia that is caught during a hospital stay from some other illness.
What is hospital acquired?
500
This is the process of smelling.
What is olfaction?