Question | Answer |
What is the purpose of the Respiratory System | Bring oxygen into the body and expel waste product |
What does the mucous membrane covering the turbinates help do | Acts as barriers to divide and slow down inhaled air so that it can pick-up warmth and moisture |
True or false. The epiglottis seals off the pharynx so that food moves into the esophagus. | false |
What is a Trachea | -Passage way for both inhaled and exhaled air
-Makes room for large amount of food that passes through the esophagus
-A muscular tube containing C-shaped right and corritage |
What are the smallest passageways in the lungs called | Bronchioles |
Which lung has three lobes and two lobes | Right -3, Left-2 |
What are clusters of air sacs in the lungs called | Alveoli |
What is the space between the lungs in the thoracic cavity called | Mediastinum |
What does respiration consist of | breathing out, expiration, inspiration, inhalation
breathing out, expiration, exhalation |
Normal depth and rate of respirations is known as what | Eupnea |
What is the medical word for collapse lung | Atelectasis |
What is the indentation on the medial surface of the lung called | Hilum |
What consist of the upper respiratory system | Nose,nasal cavity, and pharynx |
What consist of the lower respiratory system | Throacic cavity, larynx, traches, bronchi, lungs and diphragm |
What is the Latin word that means partition | Septum |
Does the larynx merge with the nasal cavity | NO |
Internal respiration is the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in what | At a cellular level/cells of the body |
What is cilia | Small hairs that move foreign particles away from the lung |
What is the membrane that covers the surface of the lung | vicual Plura |
What does the phrenic nerve do for respiration | causes the diaphragm to contract and initiate inspiration |
What is the form (term) in which oxygen travels in the blood. | oxyhemoglobin |