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Haney MedTerm c11
Haney Medterm c11-HC
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is external respiration | Oxygen is inhaled into the lungs |
| What is internal respiration | Oxygen you inhale circulates from the pulmonary bloodstream in the lungs, back to the heart, to the systemic bloodstream |
| What two ways does air enter the body | Nose and Mouth |
| What are the hair like projections on the mucous membranes | Cilia |
| Whats another name for your throat | Pharynx |
| What does your larynx do | Contains structures that make vocal sounds possible |
| Whats another name for your trachea | Windpipe |
| Whats another name for your alveoli | Air sacs |
| Whats your uppermost part of your lung called | Apex |
| Whats is the lower part of your lung called | Base |
| What is the outer later of the pleura | Parietal pleura |
| What is the inner most layer of the pleura | Visceral pleura |
| What is the space between the lungs called | Mediasinum |
| What are capillaries | Network of tiny blood vessels |
| What is the diaphragm | Seperates the throratic cavity from the abdominal cavity |
| What is exhalation | Air is being forced out of the lungs |
| What are the two main branches leading from the trachea to the lungs | Bronchi |
| What is pain in the larynx | Laryngalgia |
| What is the enlarged upper end of the trachea below the root of the tongue | Larynx |
| What are the external nostrils | Nares |
| What is the name of the nerve that is known as the motor nerve to the diaphgram | Phrenic nerve |
| What is the double folded membrane that lines the thoratic cavity | Pleura |
| What is your septum | A wall that divides two cavities |
| What is another name for your chest | Thorax |
| What is apenea | Temporary cessation of breathing |
| What is abnormally slow breathing | Bradypnea |
| What is dysphonia | Difficulty speaking |
| What is epistaxis | Hemorrhage from the nose |
| What is hypercapinia | Increase amount of carbon dioxide in the blood |
| What is hypoxemia | Insufficient oxygenation of the blood |
| What is hypoxia | Deficiency of oxygen |
| What is pleural rub | Frition fub caused by inflammation of the pleural space |
| What is rhinorrhea | Thin water discharge from the nose |
| What is rhonchi | Rales of rattlings in the throat |
| What is tachypnea | Abnormal rapidity of breathing |
| What is another name for the common cold | Coryza |
| What is empyema | Pus in a body cavity |
| What is pleuritis | Inflammation of the viscereal and parietal pleura |
| What is pneumonia | Inflammation of the lungs caused by bacteria, virusis, and chemical irritants |
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