10 Respiratory System Flashcards
site of the gas exchange, microscopic structures, respiratory bronchioles - alveolar ducts – alveoli
respiratory zone
function in respiration, olfaction, and speech
Respiratory system
total amount of exchangeable air or the maximum amount of air that can be moved during one respiratory cycle
Vital Capacity
expandability or “stretchiness” of the lungs higher lung compliance makes it easier to expand lungs normally high due to distensibility of lung tissue and surfactant low compliance leads to difficulty in breathing
Lung compliance
gas-liquid boundary, liquid molecules are more attracted to one another than gas resists any force that tends to increase surface area of liquid water- high surface tension; coats alveolar walls →reduces them to smallest size without surfactant to reduce surface tensions, alveoli would collapse
Alveolar surface tension
quite expiration normally passive process - note: forced expiration is active process; uses abdominal (oblique and transverse) and internal intercostal muscles
Expiration
increased volume-decreased pressure - an active process beginning with muscle contraction - changes in thoracic volume and sequence of events during inspiration
Inspiration
supply blood with oxygen for cellular respiration and dispose of carbon dioxide, a waste product of cellular respiration
Respiration
breathing movement of air into and out of the lungs
Pulmonary ventilation
forms a right of cartilage just inferior to thyroid cartilage, pairs of arytenoid, cuneiform and corniculate cartilages
Cricoid cartilage
outermost layer of connective tissue encases C-shaped rings of hyaline cartilage
Adventitial layer of trachea wall
connective tissue with seromucous glands (serum mucus)
Submucosa layer of trachea
ciliated pseudostratified epithelium with goblet cells
Mucosal layer of trachea
connects posterior of cartilage rings -contracts during coughing to expel mucus; coughing increases pressure, constricts the muscle, narrows diameter of trachea
Tracheal muscles
increases diameter for large volumes of air (relaxes trachealis) - skeletal muscle bridges back of “C” cartilage - esophagus is behind trachea; swallow, needs to expand, the esophagus can bulge into backside of trachea because of “c” ring that doesn’t go all the way around
Sympathetic stimulation
windpipe; extends from cartilage of the larynx to branches of primary bronchi - walls supported by C-shaped tracheal cartilages -open part of cartilages face posteriorly towards esophagus - not continuous cartilaginous tube (cartilage in “C” rings around tube) still have ciliated epithelia in tube
Trachea
forms anterior and lateral surfaces of larynx; where adam’s apple is, testosterone makes it bigger
Thyroid cartilage
Polygonal to cuboidal epithelial cells within alveoli that secrete pulmonary surfactant and readily divide following tissue injury to type I alveolar cells.
Type II alveolar cells (type II pneumocytes)
Flattened squamous epithelial cells that line pulmonary alveoli and facilitate gas exchange.
Type I alveolar cells (type I pneumocytes)
oxygen and carbon dioxide in blood circulation
Transport
where simple diffusion of gases takes place Three layers: 1. squamous epithelial cells lining the alveoli 2. endothelial cells of adjacent capillary 3. fused basement membranes between alveolar and endothelial; each tissue has its own basement membrane. Diffusion occurs rapidly because the distance is small and both oxygen and carbon dioxide are lipid soluble
Respiratory membrane
pseudostratified mucosal epithelium composed of columnar epithelial cells with apical cilia often admixed with goblet cells. This epithelium is characteristic of the upper respiratory tract (nasal cavity, sinuses, nasopharynx), eustachian tube, trachea, and large bronchi.
Respiratory epithelium
Tall, pseudostratified sensory epithelium within the caudal portions of the nasal cavity that contains a population of chemoreceptor cells, olfactory receptor cells, that generate the sensation of smell.
Olfactory epithelium
Scroll-like structures within the nasal cavity that are composed of a core of thin bone surrounded by connective tissue and lined by respiratory epithelium; function to help warm and humidify air and trap particulates.
Nasal turbinates
projects over the glottis and covers the glottis during swallowing elastic cartilage; all other structures have hyaline cartilage
Epiglottis
air enters larynx through?
glottis
end of soft palate, prevents air/food from going into the nasal cavity - made of 9 cartilages, ligaments, and skeletal muscles.
uvula
oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange between systemic blood vessels and tissues.
Internal respiration
oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange between lungs and blood.
External respiration
columnar epithelial cells that produce and secrete mucin, a glycoprotein that is a major constituent of mucus.
Goblet cells
pathway moving air; no gas exchange, includes all structures from nasal cavity to larger bronchioles, this also cleanses, warms and humidifies the air and cools the air on way out (maintains homeostasis), facilitates the exchange, needs a head for diffusion, lines with respiratory mucosa with cilia; traps and get rid of particles before they go into lungs; pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelium
Conducting zone
rich in metabolic enzymes (cytochrome P450 enzymes) and therefore serve a major role in the biotransformation of inhaled xenobiot; cuboidal epithelial cells with apical microvilli located within and distal to bronchioles.
Club cells (Claracells)
like the arterioles of the cardiovascular system; controls the amount of resistance to airflow - extreme bronchoconstriction can almost completely block passage ways no cartilage, all smooth muscle
Bronchioles
trachea branches into two primary bronchi (right/left), one on each lung secondary bronchi branch off primary; enter lung lobes (2 on left lung, 3 on right), one to each lobe tertiary bronchi (9-10 branches each lung) supply bronchopulmonary segment - C shaped rings are now offset, protects from all directions - bronchioles branch into alveoli
Bronchial tree
relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas, gasses fill the container: if the container size is reduced – the pressure increases (P). Pressure varies inversely with volume. Changes in thoracic/lung volume of the pleural cavities – the movement of the chest wall or diaphragm will directly affect the volume of the lung by changing the volume of pleural cavities.
Boyle’s law
chamber that connect to multiple individual alveoli, surrounded by fine elastic fibers and pulmonary capillaries, only to respond to stretching, and recoil; skeletal muscles would be too thick, (we do not want this to prevent gas flow to capillaries)
Alveolar sacs
connect adjacent alveoli and equalizes air pressure throughout the lungs
Alveolar pores