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Name the aspect of respiration:
providing fresh air to the alveoli
ventilation
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Name the aspect of respiration:
gas exchange between alveoli and blood
external respiration
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Name the aspect of respiration:
gas exchange between blood and tissue fluid
internal respiration
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Name the aspect of respiration:
oxygen utilization in cell
cellular respiration
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list the two primary, functional portions of the respiratory tract and their components.
conducting portion: nasal cavity to bronchioles
respiratory portion: respiratory brachioles and alveoli
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List the upper respiratory tract.
nose, nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, pharynx
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List the lower respiratory tract:
larynx, trachea, bronchi, lungs
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Aside from carrying air, what is the function of the upper respiratory tract?
- Gas conditioning
- -filter
- -warm
- -humidify
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4 basic tissues in our respiratory tract.
vestibulte, external nares
keratinized stratified squamous epithelium
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4 basic tissues in our respiratory tract.
oro and laryngopharynx, top of larynx
non-keratinized stratified squamous epithelium.
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4 basic tissues in our respiratory tract.
Nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, nasopharynx, inferior larynx, trachea, bronchi, and large bronchioles
cilated pseudostratified columnar epithelium
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4 basic tissues in our respiratory tract.
alveoli
simple squamous epithelium
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What is the technical term for our nostrils?
external nares
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What do we call the nostrils like area where air passes from our nasal cavity into our throat?
internal nares
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WHat is the technical term for the area behind our oral and sal cavities?
pharynx
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above the soft plate
nasal pharynx
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between soft palate and base of tongue/hyoid bone
oropharynx
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between the hyoid bone and the opening to the esophagus
laryngopharynx
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What is the technical term for the voice box?
larynx
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large, superior, anterior only, adam's apple
thyroid cartilage
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smaller, inferior, complete ring
cricoid cartilage
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What structure occurs between the two cartilages?
cricothyroid ligament/membrane
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What spoon shaped structure that protrudes superior to the voice box folds over the opening between the vocal chords during swallowing?
epiglottis
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What do we call the opening between the vocal chords?
glottis
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Two sets of folds occur in the voice box.
name them.
1. elastic, medial, sound producing folds.
2. inelastic, lateral, don't produce sounds
- 1. vocal folds
- 2. vestibular folds
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What is the technical term for the windpipe?
trochea
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What structures keep the windpipe open?
- C-shaped cartilage rings.
- allow esophagus to distend
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Into what two tubes does the windpipe bifurcate?
primary branchi
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In which bronchus are foreign objects more likely to lodge?
why?
- right
- -wider, steeper descent
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List the names of the lobes in the lungs.
- right- superior, middle, inferior
- left - superior, inferior
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The heart crowds one lung. Which lung is it and what do we call the resulting features?
- - left
- - cardiac impression
- - cardiac notch
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What surface of the lungs follows the contours of the rib cage?
costal surface
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What surface of the lung faces medially?
mediastinal surface
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What do we call the groove, or concavity, that provides an entry point for bronchi, pulmonary vessels, and nerves?
hilum
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What do we call the entire complex of structures that enter the lung at this locations as well as the connective tissue that binds and stabilizes them?
root
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How do terminal bronchioles differ from bronchi?
- lack cartilage
- dominated by smooth muscle
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The alveoli contain two primary cell types. Provide the function of each.
- Pneumocyte type I : diffusion
- Pneumoyte type II: secrete surfactant
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