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Parts of the Respiratory System
All About Air & Breathing
Occupations
All About Asthma
Parts of the Body
100
The two ways air gets into the body.
What is the nose and mouth?
100
The gas in the air that we need to breathe and stay alive
What is oxygen?
100
This person provides basic patient care under direction of nursing staff.
What is a Nursing Assistant?
100
A chronic lung disorder that can make breathing difficult.
What is asthma?
100
The 2 organs in the chest cavity that help us to breathe
What are the lungs?
200
These structures are also known as airways.
What are bronchial tubes?
200
The gas that is in the air we breathe out
What is carbon dioxide?
200
This person conducts complete physicals, provides treatment, and counsels patients.
What is a Physician’s Assistant?
200
A sticky and thick liquid substance that can clump together and narrow air passages.
What is mucus?
200
The tube that leads from the trachea to the stomach
What is the esophagus?
300
The tiny air sacs in the lungs
What are alveoli?
300
The process of taking air into the lungs
What is inhalation?
300
This person diagnoses, treats, and help prevents allergic diseases and disease processes affecting the immune system.
What is an allergist?
300
In asthma these structures around the airways, may tighten, further narrowing the space for airflow.
What are muscles?
300
Another word for the windpipe that extends downward from the base of the larynx.
What is the trachea?
400
Another name for the voice box.
What is the larynx?
400
The process of breathing it out
What is exhalation?
400
This person helps individuals and communities to adopt healthy behaviors.
What is a Community Healthcare Worker?
400
These cause people with asthma to become hyperactive, or sensitive, to certain inhaled allergens or irritants.
What are triggers?
400
A small flap of tissue, that covers the air-only passage when we swallow
What is epiglottis?
500
Tiny hairs that protect the nasal passageways
What are cilia?
500
It happens when we breathe and the diaphragm moves upward.
What is exhalation/breathing out?
500
If a patient is found to have asthma, the doctor will use the results of tests to determine the best one of these.
What is a treatment plan?
500
A portable, easy-to-use device that measures how well your lungs are working.
What is a peak flow meter?
500
The large muscle at the bottom of the chest cavity
What is the diaphragm?