Respiratory Flashcards

What is the function of nose hairs? To filter insects and large particles from the inhaled air What are the 5 functions of the nasal cavity 1. Help warm the air (cold air can freeze for the air you breathe? lungs); warmed by superficial veins 2. Enhance the sense of smell 3. Clean (dirty air can clog lungs); mucous is sticky, and cilia will move that dirt down the back of the throat, then it’s swallowed. 4. Moisten the air (dry lungs can crack). The fluid secreted by glands makes the moisture, even on windy days the air goes to 100% humidity by the time it gets to the lungs. 5. Increase the turbulence in the flow of air through the nasal cavity. The increase in turbulence allows more time for the air to be warmed and moistened. Where do tears drain out of the eye? LACRIMAL DUCT.

From the middle ear, where does the NASOPHARYNX: Eustachian tube open into? What are the three parts of the Pharynx? Nasopharynx Orophayynx Laryngopharynx

Which part is at the back of the mouth and is OROPHARYNX is the back of the mouth; visible when you open your mouth and look visible when you open your mouth and look all the way in the back? all the way back.

Which two structures separate the Separates the oropharanyx and the oropharanyx and the nasopharynx? nasopharynx: SOFT PALATE UVULA What is the function of the uvula? To move upward when swallowing, to prevent food from going into nasal cavities

What are the two functions of the larynx? FUNCTIONS Respiratory Flashcards

1. Produce sounds (vocal cords) What is the name of the opening of the 2. Prevent food from entering lungs larynx?

What is the name of the flap that covers the GLOTTIS is the opening. opening? EPIGLOTTIS flaps over the glottis when you swallow so nothing will go into the trachea.

The ability to vary the pitch of the voice From varying the tension in the vocal folds results from what?

Tracheotomy, above the jugular notch What is procedure is done in a choking emergency? In a runner who is breathing heavily during a Open as far as possible race, the glottis is open or closed?

What are inflamed vocal cords (↓ sound prod Laryngitis uction)?

Name the layers of the trachea, from MUCOSA: consists of two parts: superficial to deepest. EPITHELIUM (most superficial layer, closest to the lumen) LAMINA PROPRIA (2nd most superficial layer) SUBMUCOSA (3rd most superficial layer) ADVENTITIA (Deepest layer, farthest from the lumen) If you inadvertently inhale something, which Right lung. lung does it tend to go into?

Where does lung cancer occur slightly more Lung cancer - in the right lung than in the left frequently in? lung

Most foreign substances in inspired air fail to Ciliated epithelium and mucus that line the reach the lungs because of what structures? respiratory passages Respiratory Flashcards

What does the left lung have that the right Only the left lung has a cardiac notch lung does not have? Lungs receive deoxygenated blood. Do lungs receive oxygenated blood or The lungs are supplied by primary, secondary, deoxygenated? and tertiary bronchi What types of bronchi supply the lungs? The left lung has TWO lobes, but the right lung How many lobes does the left lung have? How has THREE lobes. many does the right one have? What three changes occur as the conducting Cartilage rings are replaced by irregular plates tubes of the respiratory tree of cartilage. become smaller, and what thing does not Cartilage disappears in the bronchioles. change? The lining epithelium thins. Elastin stays in the walls

What happens when the diaphragm muscles The size of the thoracic cavity INCREASES contract? and air rushes into the lungs.

What is an allergic condition where ASTHMA. bronchioles will constrict, blocking air flow to the lungs?

CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE CHRONIC BRONCHITIS: (COPD) is a combination of what two EMPHYSEMA: conditions? What is the name of a chronic respiratory Emphysema disease that leads to an expanded “barrel chest’?

What is the “flu” caused by a virus that you Influenza are vaccinated against when you get the flu vaccine?

What is a detergent produced within the surfactant alveoli, which coats it?

What is its function? Functions to help with lung inflation by Respiratory Flashcards

keeping the walls of the alveoli from sticking together when they collapse during exhalation

RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME What syndrome is where this substance is not produced in a premature baby, and is the number one cause of death in premature babies?

What is the lining of the thoracic cavity? Pleura

The rubbing together of inflamed pleural Pleurisy membranes that produces a stabbing pain in the chest is called what? What three things happen when the The size of the thoracic cavity increases diaphragm contracts? The pressure inside the thoracic cavity drops Air flows into the lungs What is the name of the condition when there PNEUMOTHORAX (COLLAPSED LUNG). is a hole in the pleura (injury from broken rib, knife)? What is an infection of a really bad bacteria Tuberculosis that get in the lungs and make themselves a capsule to hide in, where antibiotics can’t reach?

An infectious illness that results in the Pneumonia accumulation of fluid in the alveoli is called what?