Chapter 7: Respiratory System

Question 1

What does CO2 stand for?

Answer 1

carbon dioxide

Question 2

What does O2 stand for?

Answer 2

oxygen

Question 3

What is deoxygenated blood?

Answer 3

blood that contains low levels of oxygen and high levels of carbon dioxide

Question 4

What is breathing or ventilation?

Answer 4

Breathing or ventilation is the process of respiration

Question 5

What is the medical term for breathing in?

Answer 5

Breathing in is inspiration or inhalation

Question 6

What is the medical term for breathing out?

Answer 6

The medical term for breathing out is expiration or exhalation

Question 7

What is Homeostasis?

Answer 7

Homeostasis is the body in a stable state

Question 8

What divides the nasal cavity internally?

Answer 8

the nasal cavity is divided internally by the nasal septum into right and left sides or nares with a wall of cartilage and bone.

Question 9

Where does the air entering the nasal cavity swirl around to?

Answer 9

It swirls around in the turbinates

Question 10

What does the air in the turbinates do?

Answer 10

slowing the a

Question 11

gener/o-

Answer 11

production; creation

Question 12

-ative

Answer 12

Suffix: pertaining to

Question 13

vascul/o-

Answer 13

blood vessel

Question 14

gon/o-

Answer 14

angle

Question 15

-metry

Answer 15

suffix: process of measuring

Question 16

rheumat/o-

Answer 16

watery discharge

Question 17

log/o-

Answer 17

word; the study of

Question 18

dis-

Answer 18

prefix: away from

Question 19

locat/o-

Answer 19

a place

Question 20

gen/o-

Answer 20

arising from; produced by

Question 21

tract/o-

Answer 21

pulling

Question 22

alg/o-

Answer 22

pain

Question 22

alg/o-

Answer 22

pain

Question 23

-ia

Answer 23

suffix: condition; state; thing

Question 24

prosthet/o-

Answer 24

artificial part

Question 25

physic/o-

Answer 25

body

Question 26

orth/o-

Answer 26

straight

Question 27

align/o-

Answer 27

arranged in a straight line