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ch 6.10
respitory system
| What is a Bronchi ? | Near the center of the chest a right bronchus and a left bronchus the right bronchus is shorter wider and exends more verically than the left bronchus |
| What is a Bronchioles ? | the bronchi continue to divde into smaller and smaller bronchi until finally, they divid into the smaller branches |
| What is a Cellular respiration ? | Since the carbon dioxide concentration is higher in the tissues cells than in the blood stream |
| Whaat is Cilia ? | help movie the mucous layers that lines the airways pushing trapped particles to ward. the esophagus where they can be swallowed |
| What is Epiglattis ? | special lef like pieces of cartilage close the opening into the larynx during swallowing |
| What is Expiration? | Air is found out of the lungs and air passages. |
| What is an external respiration ? | The exchanges of oxgen and carbon dioxide bewteen the lungs and blood stream |
| What is Inspiration ? | Process of breathing in air |
| What is an internal respiration ? | The exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen between the tissue cells by the blood |
| What is a larynx? | voice box lines between the pharynx and trachea |
| What is a lung? | thishas three sections or lobes? |
| wHAT is a nasal cavities ? | lines with a mucous membrance and have a rich blood supply |
| What is the nasal septum? | Divides the nose into hollow spaces |
| What is a nose? | 2 openings called nastrils or nares through which enters |
| What is a Pharynx? | lines directly behind the nasel cavities |
| What is a respiration? | when the diaphrom and intercostal muscles relax |
| What is a respiratory system | Consits of the lungs and air passways |
| What is sinuses? | cavities in the skull the surround the nasul area |
| What is the trachea ? | (windpipe) is tube extending from the laryx to the senter of the chest |
| What is a ventilation ? | Process of breathing |
| Bronchittis | inflammation ofbronchi and bronchial tubes |
| Influenza | higly contagious viral infection |
| sinusitis | inflammation of mucous membranes lining sinuses |
| epistaxis ` | a nosesbleed |
| teberculosis | infection lung disease caused by bacteria |
| rhinitis | inflammation of the nasel mucous membranes |
| What is alveoli? | resemble a bunch of groups an adult lung contains approximately 500 million per mim |