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Respiratory System-A

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Resting Tidal Volume   The amount of air moved into or out of lungs during a single respiratory cycle  
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Expiratory Reserve Volume   The amount of air you can voluntarily expell after you have completed a normal respiratory cycle  
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Residual Volume   The amount of air that remains in your lungs even after maximum exhalation  
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Minimal Volume   The amount of air which would remain in your lungs even if they were collapsed  
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Inspiratory Reserve Volume   The amount of air you can take into your lungs over and above tidal volume  
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Inspiritory Capacity   Tidal volume plus IRV  
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Functional Residual Capacity   The amount of air remaining in lungs after a quiet respiratory cycle  
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Vital Capacity   Maximum amount of air that you can move into or out of your lungs in a single respiratory cycle  
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Total lung capacity   Total volume of your lungs (Vital capacity plus residual volume)  
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Anoxia   A condition of tissue oxygen starvation (not limitation)  
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Hypoxia   Low tissue oxygen levels  
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Asthma   An acute respiratory disorder characterized by unusually sensitive, irritated conducting airways  
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Atelectasis   A collapsed lung  
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Bronchitis   Inflamation of bronchial lining  
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cystic fibrosis   A lethal inherited disease caused by an abnormal membrane channel protein; mucous secretions become to thick to be transported easily, leading to respiratory problems  
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Decompresion sickness-alternate name?   The Bends  
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Decompression sickness-definition?   A condition caused by a rapid drop in atmospheric pressure and the resulting formation of nitrogen gas bubbles in body fluids, tissues and organs  
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Emphysema   A chronic, progressice condition characterized by shortness of breath and an inability to tolerate physical exertion  
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Epistaxis   Nosebleed  
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Heimlich maneuver-Alternate name?   Abdominal thrust  
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Heimlich maneuver-definition?   Compression applied to the abdomen just inferior to the diaphram, to force air out of the lungs to clear a blocked trachea or larynx  
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Hypercapnia   Increase in the PC02 of arterial blood  
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Hypocapnea   abnormally low PCO2  
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Lung cancer-alternate name?   pleuropulmonary neoplasm  
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pleuropulmonary neoplasm   Lung cancer  
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Mountain sickness   An acute disorder resulting from CNS effects due to the low gas partial pressures that occur at high altitudes  
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Pleurisy   An inflamation of the pleaurae, accomplanied by the secretion of excess amounts of pleural fluid  
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pneumonia   A respiratory disorder characterized by fluid leakage into the alveoli or swelling and constriction of the respiratory bronchioles  
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pneumothorax   the entry of air into the pleural cavity  
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The pleural cavity   the space between the viseral and parietal plerae  
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Respiratory Distress Syndrome   A condition resulting from the production of inadequate surfactant and associated alveolar collapse  
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SIDS   Death of an infant to to respiratory arrest. Unkown cause  
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tracheostomy   insertion of a tube directly into the trachea to bypass a blocked or damaged larynx  
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tuberculosis-bacteria?   Myobacterium tuberculosis  
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Composition of air-Nitrogen%?   78.6%  
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Composition of air-O2%?   20.9  
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Composition of air-other than Nitrogen and oxygen?   0.5%-water, CO2, others  
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Normal Atmospheric Pressure   760 mm Hg  
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mm Hg   Millimeters of Mercury  
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Partial pressure   The pressure contributed by a single gas in a mixture of gasses  
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Normal partial pressure of O2 in atmosphere   159 mm Hg  
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Quiet Breathing AKA?   Eupnia  
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Forced Breathing AKA?   Hyperpnea  
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Diaphragmatic breathing   Breathing using the diaphram  
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Costal Breathing   Breathing using the ribs  
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Adult Respiratory Rate   12-18 Breaths per minute  
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Child Respiratory Rate   18-20 Breaths per minute  
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Female Respiratory Reserve volume is usually aproximately...?   500 ml  
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Male Respiratory Reserve volume is usually aproximately...?   500 ml  
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Female ERV   700  
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Male ERV   1000  
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Male residual volume?   1200  
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Female residual volume?   1100  
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IRV-Male?   3300  
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IRV-Female?   1900  
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Total Lung capacity-Male   6000  
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Total Lung Capacity-Female   4500  
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Anatomic Dead Space   Area of lungs that does not permit gas exchange-conducting passageways  
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Hemoglobin Saturation-Definition?   The percentage of heme units containing bound oxygen  
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The number of heme units per hemoglobin molecule?   four  
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If each hemoglobin is carrying two O2 molecules O2 sat is..?   50%  
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The most important environmental factors affeting hemoglobin are:   PO2 of blood blood pH temperature Metabolic activity withing RBCs  
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Does venous blood contain oxygen?   Yes  
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Fetal hemoglobin has _______ affinity for oxygen than adult.   Greater  
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Heat has what effect on the release of oxygen?   Increases release  
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BPG ______ the rate of oxygen release   Increases  
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________s generate 3-bisphosphoglycerate   RBC  
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