Function
The process of bringing air into the lungs.
What is inhalation?
Also known as the throat.
What is the pharynx?
Uncontrolled cell growth in the lungs that results in cells without proper function.
What is lung cancer?
The type of blood vessel where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged through.
What is the capillary?
Structure that contains the vocal cords.
What is the larynx?
The process of expelling air from the lungs.
What is exhalation?
Also known as the voice box.
What is the larynx?
What is asthma?
The location of where the trachea branches into 2 separate airways going into the lungs.
What is the carina?
Inflammation and infection of the lungs where fluid will build up and obstruct the airways.
What is pneumonia?
1 Inhalation + 1 Exhalation =
What is 1 respiration? (Ventilation)
Area of the throat located posterior to the oral cavity.
What is the oropharynx?
Inflammation of the bronchi.
The process of taking in oxygen through the lungs and diffusion across into the blood stream.
What is external respiration?
The tissue covering the lungs and creating a pressurized space between itself and the lung.
What is pleura?
The process of amplifying and vibrating sound to help project a voice.
What is resonance?
Area of the throat located just superior to the larynx.
What is the laryngopharynx?
Generalized term for the disorder where individuals have a difficult time breathing due to emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
What is COPD?
The process of delivering oxygen to the rest of the body.
The clinical sign of someone who has emphysema.
What is a barrel chest?
The muscle used to decrease and increase pressure within the chest cavity.
What is the diaphragm?
The 2 glands located at the posterior aspect of the oral cavity which aid in the immune system.
What are the tonsils?
Bacterial disease that creates "pocket-like" structures in the lungs and can cause bloody sputum/mucus.
What is Tuberculosis?
What is hemoglobin?
What is 5?