What are the Nasopharynx, Oropharynx, Laryngopharynx?
100
The process of the ventilation begins with ...
What is the nasal cavity?
100
A malignant tumor originating in the bronchi. Usually associated with a history of cigarette smoking.
What is Bronchogenic Carcinoma?
100
Relieves the urge to cough.
What is Antitussive (hydrocodon)
200
Term used to describe an inability to absorb oxygen from inhaled air.
What is Anoxia?
200
It is formed by tight association walls of alveoli and capillaries; gas exchange between lungs and blood occurs across this.
What is Respiratory Membrane?
200
The amount of air that enters the lung in a single inhalation or leaves the lungs in a single exhalation of quiet breathing.
What is Tidal Volume?
200
Viral infection of the respiratory system characterized by chills, fever, body aches, and fatigue.
What is Influenza?
200
Reduces congestion throughout the respiratory system.
What is decongestant?
300
Refers to withdrawing fluid from a body cavity using suction. Also pertains to inhaling food, liquid, or a foreign object into the airways. Leads to pneumonia.
What is aspiration?
300
The passage way for air, extends from the pharynx and larynx down to the bronchi. It is composed of smooth muscle and cartilage rings and lined by mucous membrane and cilia.
What is the Trachea?
300
The volume of air in the lungs after a maximum inhalation.
What is Total Lung Capacity?
300
Hereditary Condition causing the exocrine glands to malfunction that makes patient produce very thick mucus that causes severe congestion within the lungs.
What is Cystic Fibrosis?
300
Relaxes muscle spasms in the bronchial tubes. Used to treat asthma.
What is Bronchodilator?
400
Abnormal breathing pattern in which there are long periods (10-60 seconds) of apnea followed by deeper, more rapid breathing.
Cheyene-Strokes Respiration
400
A flap of cartilaginous tissue that sits above the glottis and provides against food and liquid being inhaled into the lungs.
What is the Epiglottis?
400
The process in which the diaphragm contracts and moves downward making a decrease in pressure within the thoracic cavity causing the lungs to fill with air.
What is breathing?
400
Infection disease caused by bacteria, cancer inflammation and calcification in the lungs.
What is Tuberculosis?
400
Given to patients when their respiration and heart stops, to provide oxygen to the brain, heart and vital organs.
What is CPR?
500
Abnormal widening and thickening of the ends of the fingers and toes associated with chronic oxygen deficiency.
What is Clubbing?
500
The area between the right and left lung and contains the heart, aorta, esophagus, thymus gland, and trachea.
What is the Mediastinum?
500
The process of respiration can be subdivided into three distinct parts.
What is ventilation, external respiration, internal respiration?
500
Collection of air or gas in the pleural cavity which may result in collapse of the lung.