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Chapter 13!

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In healthy lungs, it is always lower than atmospheric pressure (that is, it is negative pressure)   Intrapleural pressure  
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Pressure of air outside the body   Atmospheric pressure  
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As it decreases, air flows into the passageways of the lungs   Intrapulmonary pressure  
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As it increases over atmospheric pressure, air flows out of the lungs   Intrapulmonary pressure  
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If this pressure becomes equal to the atmospheric prssure, the lungs collapse   Intrapleural pressure  
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Rises well over atmospheric pressure during a forceful cough   Intrapulmonary pressure  
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smallest conducting respiratory passageways   Bronchioles  
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Separates the oral and nasal cavities   Palate  
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Major nerve, stimulating the diaphragm   phrenic nerve  
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food passageway posterior to the trachea   Esophagus  
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Closes off the larynx during swallowing   Epiglottis  
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windpipe   trachea  
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actual site of gas exchanges   alveoli  
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pleural layer covering the thorax walls   parietal pleura  
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Pleural layer covering the lungs   visceral pleura  
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lumen of larynx   Glottis  
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Fleshy loves in the nasal cavity which increase its surface area   Conchae  
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Which of the primary bronchi is larger in diameter? L/R   right  
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Which of the primary bronchi is more horizontal? L/R   left  
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which of the primary bronchi is the most common site for lodging of a foreign object that has entered the respiratory passageways? L/R   right  
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