Thde respiratory system Flashcards

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What is the process called when O2 is used by cell mitocondria?

A

Cellular respiration

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Cellular respiration is a complex process that sees glucose broken down into ___and ____with a release of energy

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Co2 and H20

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What is the 4 componets of respiration?

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a) Ventilation
b) gas exchange
c) the transport of oxygen and Co2 in the blood
d) gas exchange between blood and tissues

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What are the auxillary roles of respiration? (5)

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Regulation of PH 
Production if chemical mediators
voice
olfaction - smelling
protection by traping microorganisms
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5
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Describe ventilation

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the process of mooving air containing O2 into the lungs and remooving Co2 from the lungs

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Where does gas exchange occur?

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in the lungs between air and blood

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What makes up the thoracic cavity?

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  • Thoraric vertebrae
  • ribs
  • costal cartilages
  • Sternum
  • musccles
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To get air to move into the lungs the pressure inside the thorax must be ______________.

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Less than atmospheric pressure

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What and where are the 6 parts of the conducting zone?

What takes place here?

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External nose
Nasal cavity
Pharynx
Larynx
Trachea
Bronchi
Lungs

The moovment, cleaning, warming and humidificaation

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What is the respiratory zone refering to?

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lungs

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What is the external noze made of?

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Hyaline cartilage
Nasal bones
Frontal and maxillary bones

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What seperates the nose into left and right?

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nasal septum

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NASAL CAVITY
Extends from the _____(nostrils) to the ______where the pharynx begins.

The anterior part of the cavity just inside the Nares is the _________

A

NARES (nostrils) to the CHOANAE

VESTIBULE

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What are the ttwo bones in the posterier part of the nasal septum?

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Vomer bone inferiorly

Ethmoid bone superiorly

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3 bony ridges, the _________modify the shape of the lateral nasal cavity wall.

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Conchae

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The superior meatus and middle meatus have openings from where?

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Paranasal sinuses

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17
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The inferior meatus has an opening into where?

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The nasolacrimal duct

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18
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What does the naso lacrimal duct do?

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drains tears

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What are the 5 roles of the nasal cavity?

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  • air passage way
  • cleans the air
  • humidifies and warms air
  • contains aofactory epithelium
  • voice sound
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Where is the nasopharynx located?

Is located posterior to the ____and superior to ________

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choanae and superior to the SOFT PALATE

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21
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What prevents food from entering the nasal cavity?

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the soft palate

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The___________ from the middle ear cavities open into the nasopharynx.

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EUSTACHIAN TUBES

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What is the name of where the oral cavity oppwns into the oropharynx?

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LARYNGOPHARYNX
Extends from the tip of the ________to the ________and passes ________to the LARYNX. Food and drink pass through the laryngopharynx into the oesophagus

A

epiglotis
oesophagus
posteriorly

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The Larynx extends from the ________to the _______.
Base of the tounge to the trachea
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What are the 3 unpaired cartilidges in the Larynx?
Thyroid Cricoid Epiglotis
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Wich unpaired cartilidge is at the base of the larynx?
cricoid
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What are the 3 paired cartilidges innthe larynx?
Arytenoid Corniculate Cuneiform
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What are the vocal folds made of and what are they attatched to?
the vocal folds are a mucus membrane covering the inferior ligament attatched to the arytenoid cartiladge
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What is the mucus membrane of the superior ligament attatched to the arytenoid called?
The vestibular fold
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What is the term for the vocal folds and the opening between them?
The glottis
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The vestibular and vocal cords are covered with _________ _______ epithelium.
stratified squamous epithelium.
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The remainder of the larynx is covered with ________ ____ ______ epithelium.
pseudostratified ciliated columnar
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What is the trachea made up of?
Dense regular connective tissue, smooth muscle
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What re-inforces the traches
15-20 C shaped cartilidges
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What kind of cells secrete mucus in the trachea?
Goblet cells
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What kind of epithilium lines the trachea
Pseudostratified ciliated epitelium
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What happens at the 5th thoracic vertebra?
trachea divides into 2 bronchi
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Where the trachea branches, what is the inferior cartilidge called?
Carina
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The main bronchi divide into _________I, __in the left lung and ___ in the right.
Lobar bronchi, 2, 3
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The lobar bronchi continue to divide into the _________BRONCHI finally giving rise to ________that have a diameter of approximately 1mm. The bronchioles subdivide further to form _________BRONCHIOLES.
Segmental Bronchioles Terminal
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Terminal bronchioles divide further to become ________BRONCHIOLES.
Respiritaory
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Respiratory Bronchioles branch again to become _____________ that have many more alveoli associated with them.
Aveolar ducts
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What 2 kinds of cells make alveolus?
Type 1 pneumocyte | Type 2 pneumocyte
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Which type of pneumocyte does the most gas exchange?
Type 1
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What type of cells are Tpe 1 pneumocytes?
Simple squamus epithelial
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What type of cells are type 2 pneumocytes and what do they secrete?
Cuboidal | surfactant
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What does surfactant do?
Make it easier for the alveoli to expand
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What seperates the left and right lung?
the mediastinum
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What muscle is used in normal quiet breathing>
The diafragm
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What muscles are brought into play if the diafragm is not enough
accessory musscles
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What do the accesory muscles change the position of?
Ribs and sternum
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At rest (end of expiration) the ribs are directed slightly ______-. On inspiration muscles attached to the ribs cause them to move _____and _______.
Downwards | UPAWRDS AND FORWARD
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what gropu of muscles cause the rib cage to moove up and the sternum forward?
External intercostals
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What 4 other muscles have the capacity to change lung capacity?
Pectoralis Major Levatores costarum Serratus posterior superior Scalenes