Respitory system

What is the other name for conchae?

What are the 4 upper respitory organs?

What two things make up the nostrils and what tissue is it composed of?

What are the 4 lower respitory tract organs?

What two things is the nasal septum made of?

What are the two functions of the mucosal lining in the nasal cavity?

What is a nasal infection that invades the sinuses called?

The separation of the nasal cavity is called?

What are the 3 bony ridges of the concha called?

What sinuses do the superior and inferior concha open up to ?

What duct does the middle conche open up to ?

What is a meatus?

What epithelium lines the vocal cords?

inflammation of the vocal cords are called?

Going down into the oral cavity is called the _____ view?

Why are false vocal cords called that and what is their function?

What are the 3 cartilages of the larynx?

_____ secreations drain from the sinuses into the _____ cavity.

What are the 4 sinuses or paranasal spaces called?

Sinuses are air-filled spaces lined with a _____ membrane.

Its function is for the nostrils to provide entrance to nasal cavity , and the internal hairs filter incoming air.

What is the enlargement at the top of the trachea ?

Flexible tube that connects larynx with bronchial tree.

Does putting more pressure in the lungs increase or decrease its volume?

What two skeletal muscles are involved in breathing?

What nerves innervate the intercostals?

What nerve goes to the diaphragm?

At rest the diaphragm is _____.

Normal air pressure equals _____ millimeters of mercury.

The central chemoreceptors are sensitive to what?

the peripheral chemoreceptors are sensitive to what?

The central chemoreceptors are located in the _____?

the medulla oblongata responds to(increased or decreased) CO2 and (low or high) pH.

What are the 2 peripheral chemoreceptors ?

Aortic bodies in the peripheral chemoreceptors respond to (increased or decreased) O2.

interacts with the medullary respiratory centers to smooth the respiratory centers to smooth the respiratory pattern.

contains rhythm generators whose output drives respiration. regulates the normal regular breathing

modifies the rhythms of breathing

Two parts of the respitory center

Receptors such as pain and emotion are locared where?

Inspiration:
Nerve impulses travel on _____ nerve to muscles of diaphragm, contracting them. As the moves downward the thoracic cavity expands. The intra-alveolar pressure _____. Atmospheric pressure, which is _____ on the outside, forces air into the respitory tract through the air passage way. Air fills up lungs.

Expiration:
The _____ and external respitory muscles _____.Tissues recoil aound the lungs and _____ the intra-aveolar pressure. Then air is squeezed out of the lungs.

What is the average Tidal volume?

what is the total lung capacity?

What is the total vital capacity?

Severe shortage of oxygen in tissues

Temporary absense of respiration that may follow hyperventilation

suffocation

Bronchiolar muscle spasms; constriction.

difficult breathing

spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, causing short, abrupt inspiration.

Deep breaths is released in a series of short expirations

deep breath is taken, glottis is closed, and air ir forced against the closure; suddenly the glottis is opened, and a blast of air passes upward

Oxygen combines with iron atoms of hemoglobin molecules to form ?

about _____% of carbon dioxide dissolves in plasma.

about _____% combines with the amino groupsof hemoglobin molecules to form carbaminohemoglobin.

about _____% of carbon dioxide reacts with water to form carbonic acid.