Respiratory System

Question 1

Ventilation and gas exchange in the lungs

Answer 1

External respiration

Question 2

Gas exchange between the blood and other tissues

Answer 2

Internal respiration

Question 3

2 types of breathing

Answer 3

Costal (thoracic)
Abdominal (diaphragmatic)

Question 4

Type of breathing occurring when more air is needed than movement of the diaphragm

Answer 4

Costal (thoracic)

Question 5

Type of breathing occurring during ordinary quiet breathing

Answer 5

Abdominal (diaphragmatic)

Question 6

Rapid, shallow breathing

Answer 6

Polypnea

Question 7

Normal quiet respiration

Answer 7

Eupnea

Question 8

Difficult breathing

Answer 8

Dyspnea

Question 9

Absence or cessation of respiration

Answer 9

Apnea

Question 10

Increase depth or rate of breathing or both

Answer 10

Hyperpnea

Question 11

External openings of the respiratory tract

Answer 11

External nares

Question 12

Mucous membrane investing the ethmoidal conchae

Answer 12

Olfactory epithelium

Question 13

Articulates with the palatine process of the maxillary bone

Answer 13

Vomer

Question 14

Air-filled cavities that communicate with the nasal cavity

Answer 14

Paranasal sinuses

Question 15

A common soft tissue conduit for food and air, lying caudal to the oral and nasal cavities

Answer 15

Pharynx

Question 16

Regulates the size of the airway and to protect it by closing to prevent substances other than the air from entering the trachea

Answer 16

Larynx

Question 17

Organ of phonation (vocalization) - voice box

Answer 17

Larynx

Question 18

Conducts air into the lungs

Answer 18

Bronchi

Question 19

Bronchi that are too narrow to be supported by cartilage are known as

Answer 19

Bronchioles

Question 20

Terminal bronchioles with alveoli

Answer 20

Respiratory bronchioles

Question 21

Secondary bronchi

Answer 21

Lobar bronchi

Question 22

Tertiary bronchi

Answer 22

Segmental bronchi

Question 23

The process by which air is moved in and out of the lungs

Answer 23

Ventilation

Question 24

Movement of air in and out of alveoli

Answer 24

Alveolar ventilation

Question 25

Mechanism to dissipate heat

Answer 25

Panting

Question 26

Volume of air moved during each breath

Answer 26

Tidal volume

Question 27

Upper airways that are not sites of gas exchange

Answer 27

Anatomic dead space

Question 28

Includes the anatomic dead space and any alveoli in which normal gas exchanges cannot occur

Answer 28

Physiologic dead space

Question 29

Total rate of air-flow into and out of the lungs

Answer 29

Minute ventilation rate

Question 30

Rate of air flow into and out of the functioning alveoli

Answer 30

Alveolar ventilation rate

Question 31

Organ of phonation (voice box) in avians

Answer 31

Syrinx

Question 32

(Avian) blind-ended expansions to the respiratory tree the walls of which are composed of connective tissue covered externally by serosa

Answer 32

Air sacs

Question 33

5 avian air sacs

Answer 33

Interclavicular Cervical Anterior thoracic Poster thoracic Abdominal

Question 34

Avian air sac which lies in between the angle of two limbs of the furcular (wishbone)

Answer 34

Interclavicular

Question 35

(Avian respiratory system) arises from the side of each lung

Answer 35

Anterior thoracic

Question 36

(Arian air sacs) a large air sac from the distal end of each lung

Answer 36

Abdominal

Question 37

Larynx of birds

Answer 37

Syrinx