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What is the function of respiration?

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Gas exchange

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What happens during inspiration?

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Air rich in O2 is inhaled into the lungs

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What happens during expiration?

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CO2 is exhaled from the lungs

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How is CO2 produced in the body?

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CO2 is produced during oxidative processes of the body

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How are CO2 and O2 transported in the body?

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By blood

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What two systems are involved in respiration?

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Respiratory system and the cardiovascular system

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What surface does air pass through when it goes through the nose? (1)

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the nasal turbinates

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What is the function of the nasal turbinates?

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they clean the air of big dust particles

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From the nose, warmed and moistened air flows through the common passages for air and food, the ____, and then continues through the _____. It goes through the _____ before reaching the _____

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pharynx
larynx
trachea
bronchi

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What do airways consist of?

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a series of tubes that branch and become narrower, shorter and more numerous as they penetrate into the lungs

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How many bronchi does the trachea divide into?

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2

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What do the 2 bronchi divide into?

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  1. Lobular bronchi
  2. segmental bronchi (off the lobular)
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How many lobar bronchi does the right main bronchus divide into?

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3

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How many lobes does the right lung have?

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3

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How many lobar bronchi does the left main bronchus divide into?

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2

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How many lobes does the left lung have?

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2

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What are the smallest airways without alveoli called?

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terminal bronchioles

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What is the pleura?

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a fluid-filled thin cellular sheet

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Where does the PARIERTAL pleura attach?

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the interior of the thoracic cage

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Where does the VISCERAL pleura attach?

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superficial surface of the lungs

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What does the visceral pleura form?

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two enclosed pleural sacs (one around each lung)

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What is the pressure of the pleural space?

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negative

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What is the function of the pleural space?

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it creates a coupling between the ribcage and the lungs

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What is the airway divided into?

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the conducting zone and the respiratory zone

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What do the conductive airways consist of?
(mouth, pharynx, larynx) --> Trachea --> Bronchi --> Bronchioles --> Terminal bronchioles
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What is the function of conductive airways?
they conduct air from the atmosphere to the respiratory part of the lungs
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Do conductive airways contribute to gas exchange?
No
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When does the respiratory part of the lungs begin?
when the terminal bronchioles divide into respiratory bronchioles
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What does the respiratory zone consist of?
The respiratory bronchioles (no more cartillage) --> alveolar ducts --> alveolar sacs
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Where is the site of gas exchange?
the alveolar regions
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Which zone makes up most of the lungs?
the respiratory zone
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What are the smallest physiological units of the lungs (distal to the terminal bronchioles) called?
acinus
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What are the 4 main functions of the conducting zone?
1. defense against bacterial infection and foreign particules 2. Warm and moisten inhaled air 3. Sound and speech 4. Regulation of air flow
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What do the epithelial linings of the bronchi have?
cilia
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What does the epithelial glands of the bronchi secrete?
mucus
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What is the function of cilia in the bronchi?
they sweep up the mucous into the pharynx
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What is the mucociliary defence system?
when foreign particles stick to mucous and cilia sweep the mucous up into the pharynx
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What is the function of the respiratory zone?
gas exchange between the air in the alveoli and the blood in the pulmonary capillaries
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What 2 blood circulations do lungs have?
pulmonary and bronchial circulation
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What is the function of the pulmonary circulation?
it brings mixed venous blood to the lungs so that it can get oxygenated and then back to the left heart
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What is the function of the bronchial circulation?
it supplies oxygenated blood from the systemic circulation to the tracheobronchial tree (so that the airways get oxygenated)
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Blood to the pulmonary capillaries is supplied via the ______
pulmonary artery (originates from the right ventricle)
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What happens when the pulmonary artery reaches the alveoli?
the arterioles divide into a capillary bed
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What do the pulmonary arteries supply blood to?
all capillaries within the alveolar walls
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How does oxygenated blood from the alveolar capillaries return to the left heart?
via the pulmonary veins
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What do the bronchial arteries from the aorta supply?
the airway walls
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The bronchial circulation is part of which circulation?
systemic circulation
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What are the 3 alveolar cell types?
1. Epithelial type 1 and 2 2. Endothelial 3. alveolar macrophages
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What seals the alveolar epithelial cells?
tight junctions
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What is the type II epithelial cells function?
pulmonary surfactant
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What is surfactant?
a substance that decreases the surface tension of the alveoli
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What is the function of the endothelial cells?
the walls of the pulmonary capillaries
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What is the function of the alveolar macrophages?
they remove foreign particles that may have escaped the mucociliary defence system of the airways
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Why does surface tension happen in the lining of the lungs?
because the molecules at the surface of the film tend to arrange themselves in the configuration involving the lowest energy
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How do the molecules at the surface of the film arrange themselves?
they “hold hands” rather than freely associate with air molecules
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What happens if a film surface is curved in the lungs?
the tension can produce a pressure
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What is LaPlace’s Law?
P=4T/R
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What does LaPlace’s Law show?
that the pressure inside a small alveoli is greater than that inside a large alveoli (not a stable systems)
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What does the soap bubble analogy suggest?
that small alveoli are likely to collapse into large ones (gas exchanging regions of the lung are unstable)
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How is alveolar collapse prevented?
by pulmonary surfactant
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What are the 2 principle roles of pulmonary surfactant?
1. prevents the pressure inside the small alveoli from exceeding at of the large alveoli 2. reduces overall surface tension so that we are able to breathe
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What would happen if the surface tension in the liquid lining layer was equal to that of water?
we wouldn’t be able to inflate our lungs
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What are the 2 kinds of respiratory muscles?
inspiratory and expiratory
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What is the main inspiratory muscle and what it is innervated by?
Diaphragm (phrenic nerve, C3-C5)
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What happens when the diaphragm contracts?
its dome descends and the chest expands longitudinally
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What raises the ribs during inspiration?
diaphragm and external intercostals
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Why does the contraction of the diaphragm also elevate the lower ribs?
because of the vertically oriented attachments of the diaphragm to the costal margins
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What happens as the ribs are elevated?
the anterior-posterior and transverse dimensions of the chest enlarge
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In addition to the diaphragm, what other 4 muscles assist in inspiration?
PRINCIPLE: the external intercostal muscles and the parasternal intercartilaginous muscles ACCESSORY: the sternocleidomastoid and the scalenus muscles
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Contraction of the inspiratory muscles is apparent during which disorder that obstructs the movement of air into the lungs?
asthma
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What is the function of the neck muscles in inspiration?
they elevate and fix the uppermost part of the rib cage, elevate the sternum, and enlarge the anterior-posterior and longitudinal dimensions of the chest
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Why is expiration passive during quiet breathing?
because of the recoil of the lungs and the chest wall (muscles relaxes)
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When do excitatory muscles become active?
during exercise and pathological states when expiratory resistance increases and the movement of airflow out of the lungs is impeded
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Which muscles are involved during expiration?
internal intercostal muscles and the abdominal muscles
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What happens when the abdominal muscles contract? (3)
1. the abdominal content is compressed 2. the ribs are depressed 3. the anterior part of the lower chest is pulled down
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What happens to the diaphragm when the abdominal muscles contract?
it becomes forced upwards
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What are the abdominal muscles essential for?
coughing, singing, talking, vomitting
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What happens when there is forced maximal contraction of the expiratory muscles against a closed glottis (Valsalva’s maneuver)?
there can be an increase in pressure (up to 100 mmHg)
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What would happen if there is a sustained increase in pressure due to Valsalva’s maneuver?
there would be a decrease in venous return to the heart , thus a decrease in cardiac output

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