8 - Comparative Respiratory System Flashcards
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Functions of the Respiratory System:
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● Ventilation and gas exhange
● Phonation
● Olfaction
● Heat regulation
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The respiratory system consists of the following parts/organs:
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● Nasal cavity
● Pharynx
● Larynx
● Trachea
● Bronchi
● Lungs
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The nasal cavity opens externally at the?
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nostrils, or external nares
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nostrils, or external nares communicates behind with the naso-pharynx through the?
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posterior nares
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What is common to the passage of food as well as air?
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pharynx
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What is the organ of voice. It also regulates the passage of air to and from the lungs.
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larynx
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What are permanently patent conducting tubes?
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trachea and bronchi
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What ventilate the body?
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lungs
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What is a cylindrical passage enclosed by all the bones of the face except the mandible?
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nasal cavity
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The nasal cavity is a cylindrical passage enclosed by all the bones of the face except the?
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mandible
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nasal cavity is divided into similar halves by the?
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nasal septum
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What bones project from the lateral walls and divide each half into:-
● dorsal nasal meatus,
● Middle nasal meatus ,
● ventral nasal meatus.
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dorsal and ventral turbinate bones
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The dorsal and ventral turbinate bones project from the lateral walls and divide each half into:-
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● dorsal nasal meatus,
● middle nasal meatus ,
● ventral nasal meatus.
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What is the only direct passage between the nostrils and pharynx?
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ventral nasal meatus
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What is situated between the nasal septum and the turbinate bones?
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common nasal meatus
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The philtrum is deep in what animals?
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Carnivores and small ruminants
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The philtrum is shalow or absent in what animals?
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Pig, ox and horse
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● the hairless region of the most rostral parts of the nose;
● no sebaceous gland instead has numerous sweat glands that keep the nostrils moist;
● it has grooves and bumps that are distinctive and allow nose prints to be used for positive individual identification
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Planum
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Planum in sheep, goat and dogs?
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Planum nasale
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Planum in pigs is called?
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Planum rostrale
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Planum in cows is called?
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Planum nasolabiale
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Planum is absent in what animal? instead covered with short, fine hairs
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Horse
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● a blind-ended passage through the horse nostrils into a blind cutaneous pouch lateral to the true nasal cavity;
● aids in passive dilation of the nostrils during vigorous ventilation
● When “tubing” a horse, a thumb placed in the diverticulum will aid in directing the tube into the ventral nasal meatus
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Nasal diverticulum (false nostril)
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● The bone in the nose of a pig to help it “root”
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Rostral bone (os rostrale/rostri)
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passage of nasal tube through the nasal cavity, pharynx and esophagus to the stomach
“Tubing”
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This animal’s paranasal sinuses have maxillary, frontal, sphenopalatine, and ethmoidal sinuses.
Horse
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This animal’s paranasal sinuses have frontal, palatomaxillary, lacrimal, sphenoidal, and conchal sinuses.
Cattle
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This animal’s paranasal sinuses have frontal, maxillary, lacrimal, sphenoidal, and conchal sinuses.
Pig
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This animal’s paranasal sinuses have a maxillary recess, frontal, and sphenoidal sinuses.
Dog
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● A common soft tissue conduit for food and air, lying caudal to the oral and nasal cavities.
Pharynx
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The walls of the pharynx are supported by what muscle? whose actions assist in deglutition (swallowing) and phonation.
striated muscles
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The pharyngotympanic, or auditory, tubes drain from the middle ear to the? It helps equalize the pressure within the middle ear with atmospheric pressure.
nasopharynx
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What tubes drain from the middle ear to the nasopharynx?
pharyngotympanic, or auditory, tubes
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What pouches are paired ventral diverticulae of the eustachian (auditory) tubes?
guttural pouches
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● This is a cartilaginous valvular apparatus which connects the pharynx and the trachea.
● It has three functions:
● to regulate air volume in respiration,
● to prevent aspiration of foreign bodies,
● to act as the organ of phonation (vocalization)
larynx
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larynx common name is?
voice box
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What is a spade shaped lies just caudal to the base of the tongue is mostly elastic cartilage?
Epiglottic cartilage (Epiglottis)
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signet ring shaped cartilage with broad dorsal portion
Cricoid cartilage
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What cartilages resembles a shield?
Thyroid cartilage (Adam’s apple in humans)
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ventral projection to which is attached the vocal ligament (vocal cord)
Vocal process
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lateral process; point of insertion of the intrinsic muscles of the larynx esp. dorsal cricoarytenoideus muscle
Muscular process
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the rostral hornprocess; absent in cats
Corniculate process
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● the entrance or pharyngeal aperture. Bounded in front by epiglottis;
● behind by corniculate process of arytenoids; laterally by aryepiglottic folds.
Laryngeal opening (aditus laryngis)
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laterally has ventricular fold and lateral fold which leads into laryngeal saccule
Vestibule
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slit – like gap bounded on either side by vocal cords/ligaments
Glottic cleft (Rima glottidis)
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posterior compartment continuous with tract (Larynx - Laryngeal Cavity)
Infraglottic cavity
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● animals that has vestibular (ventricular) ligament cranial to the vocal ligament;
● an outpocketing of mucous membrane between the two ligaments forms a blind pouch called lateral ventricle
Horses and swine
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Lateral ventricle of the larynx is present in what animals?
horse, pig and dog
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Lateral ventricle of the larynx is absent in what animals?
cat and ruminants
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What membrane occupies thyroid notch?
Crico-thyroid membrane
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What membrane connects body of thyroid with body and cornua of hyoid?
Thyro-hyoid membrane
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Ligament from oral surface of epiglottis to body of hyoid?
Hyo-epiglottic ligament
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Ligament from base of epiglottis to body and medial surface of laminae of thyroid?
Thyro-epiglottic ligament
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What ligament connects bases of arytenoids?
Transverse arytenoid ligament
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Ligament from vocal process of arytenoids to body of thyroid?
Vocal ligament
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Ligament from cuneiform process to lateral surface vocal process?
Ventricular ligament
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What membrane connects cricoid with 1st tracheal ring?
Crico-tracheal membrane
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What intrinsic muscle of larynx abduct vocal folds to open the glottis?
Dorsal cricoarytenoideus
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What intrinsic muscle of larynx closes the rima
Lateral cricoarytenoideus
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What intrinsic muscle of larynx assists in closing of rima; the only UNPAIRED m.?
Transverse arytenoideus
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What intrinsic muscle of larynx constrict/close glottis?
Thyroarytenoideus and Hyoepiglotticus
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What intrinsic muscle of larynx tenses the vocal cords?
Cricothyroideus
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What intrinsic muscle of larynx closes the rima and relaxes the vocal folds?
Ventricularis and Vocalis
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– a condition in horses;
● Paralysis of the muscle that abducts the arytenoid cartilages and thereby increases the diameter of the airway (the dorsal cricoarytenoid muscle)
Laryngeal Hemiplegia or Roaring
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A horse that is a roarer cannot expand the ? during forceful inspiration and consequently has difficulty bringing sufficient air into the lungs when exercising.
rima glottidis
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inflammation of the larynx
Laryngitis
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placement of endotracheal tube into the larynx and trachea
Intubation
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in the horse – opening the larynx
Ventral laryngotomy
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What is a cartilaginous and membranous tube which extends from the caudal end of the larynx to the hilus of the lungs where it divides into,the left and right bronchi.
trachea
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trachea is formed by a series of what rings? composed of hyaline cartilage.
C-shaped tracheal rings
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C-shaped tracheal rings are joined to one another by what ligament?
elastic annular ligaments
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trachea dorsal side is completed by connective tissue and a smooth muscle called?
trachealis
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Tracheal rings incomplete dorsally in thoracic region in what animal?
● In cervical region they overlap dorsally from right to left.
Horse
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The ends of the tracheal rings are in apposition, forming a dorsal ridge in thoracic region in what animals?
● In cervical region they are incomplete dorsally.
Ox/sheep
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Tracheal rings overlaps dorsally both in thorax and neck in what animals?
Pigs
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In what animal the tracheal rings are slender and U-shaped.
● The end of the rings do not meet dorsally so that the trachea has a membranous dorsal wall
Dog
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surgical opening of the trachea from the outside of the upper neck
Tracheostomy
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The trachea passes caudad as far as the base of the heart, where it divides into?
two principal bronchi
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The principal bronchi branch into secondary (also called ?)
lobar
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The principal bronchi branch into secondary (also called lobar) then?
tertiary bronchi
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The walls of these bronchi are supported by?
cartilaginous plates
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When the airways divide to the extent that they are less than 1 mm in diameter, the cartilage disappears, and these airways are called?
bronchioles
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The bronchiole eventually branches into several?
alveolar ducts
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The bronchiole eventually branches into several alveolar ducts, which terminate in clusters of air sacs, called the ?; It is here that the exchange of gases with the blood takes place
alveoli
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The ruminants and pig have an additional ? arising cranial to the principal bronchi; it supplies the cranial lobe of the right lung
tracheal bronchus or the third bronchus
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● They are paired structures which occupy the greater part of thoracic cavity.
● They accurately molded to the walls of the cavity and to the neighboring organs.
● It is soft and spongy to the touch. It crepitates when pressed.
● Its color is bright pink in life and it floats in water.
Lungs
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Two surfaces of lungs?
costal and mediastinal
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Two borders of lungs?
dorsal and ventral
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caudal end of lungs resting on the diaphragm
base
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cranial end of lungs lying in the thoracic inlet
Apex
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Can be distinguished by the following features:
◦ It is much smaller,
◦ It is firmer to the touch and does not crepitate.
◦ It is pale gray in color,
◦ It does not float in water
Fetal lung
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● The root of the lung is composed of structures which enter or leave the lung at the hilus on the mediastinal surface.
● These are:-
● Bronchus,
● Pulmonary artery,
● Pulmonary veins,
● Bronchial artery,
● Pulmonary nerves,
● Pulmonary lymph vessels.
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Generalized Pattern of the Left Lung Lobes:
- Cranial (apical) Lobe
- Cranial part
- Caudal part
- Caudal (diaphragmatic) Lobe
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Generalized Pattern of the Right Lung Lobes:
- Cranial (apical) Lobe
- Middle (cardiac) Lobe
- Caudal (diaphragmatic) Lobe
- Accessory (intermediate or azygos) Lobe
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This animal lungs is not divided into lobes by deep fissures.
HORSE
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Total lung lobes of horse?
HORSE5
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This animals lungs lobes are divided into lobes by deep interlobar fissures.
OX/SHEEP
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What animal has same as ox and sheep but left lung can be regarded as having only two lobes.
● Diaphragmatic lobe is marked off by a distinct fissure.
● Anterior to this apical and cardiac lobes are separated only by cardiac notch.
PIG
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In what animal the right lung is larger than left?
● Divided into four lobes by very deep fissures which extend to root
DOG
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The act of striking a part with short sharp blows and listening for the sound made.
Percussion
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● Listening to air passing through airways of the lungs with a stethoscope.
● The normal resting animal will have quiet or inaudible sounds.
● An excited, panting dog will have loud sounds.
● Normal lung sounds are louder over the trachea and its bifurcation, decreasing toward the periphery of the lungs.
● Normal sounds resemble wind gently rustling leaves
Auscultation of the lungs
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● intermittent explosive sounds.
● They are caused by sudden opening of an airway or popping of secretion bubbles.
● They are associated with bronchopneumonia, interstitial pneumonia or pulmonary edema
Discontinuous crackles
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caused by air passing through narrowed airways.
Continuous wheezes
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normal sounds are harsher and louder than in the horse
Auscultation of the ox
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a restricted area due to the thoracic limb
Auscultation triangle
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● The surgical puncture of the chest wall for drainage of fluid.
● It is performed in the dependent (lowest) point on the standing animal.
● This is caudal to the heart and cranial to the diaphragmatic line of pleural reflection.
● This varies from side to side and species to species.
Pleurocentesis/thoracocentesis
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● Surgical opening of the thoracic cavity.
● These openings can be through an intercostal space, by removal of a rib, or by splitting the sternum (mediastinotomy)
Thoracotomy
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splitting the sternum?
mediastinotomy
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The removal of a lung lobe.
Lobectomy
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must be done craniodorsal to the basal border of the lung
Lung biopsy
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● Are two in number- right and left.
● They are serous membranes which line the walls of the thorax and are reflected over the surface of the lungs.
● They are in three parts:
● Parietal,
● Mediastinal,
● Pulmonary.
pleura
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Pleura are in three parts:
● Parietal,
● Mediastinal,
● Pulmonary.
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pleura are attached to the structures which they cover by what tissue?
subserous tissue
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In the case of the parietal pleura which covers the thoracic wall, this subserous tissue is called?
endothoracic fascia
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where costal parietal pleura turns vertebrally to become mediastinal pleura.
Vertebral
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where costal parietal pleura turns dorsally to become mediastinal pleura.
Sternal
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where the parietal pleura is reflected onto the diaphragm
Diaphragmatic
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What is the space formed at the mid-line by the apposition of right and left pleural membranes?
mediastinum
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mediastinum is divided into three parts:
● Precardial,
● Cardial,
● Postcardial.
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The precardial mediastinum contains:
● Trachea,
● esophagus,
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Cardial mediastinum contains:
● Heart and pericardium,
● Start of arterial system and end of venous system,
● Oesophagus,
● Termination of trachea,
● Thoracic duct,
● Phrenic, cardiac and pulmonary nerves,
● Vagus and sympathetic nerves,
● Left recurrent nerve
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Postcardial mediastinum contains:
● Aorta,
● Vena azygos,
● Thoracic duct,
● Oesophagus,
● Vagus and sympathetic nerves,
● Left phrenic nerve
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What is a broad unpaired muscle which forms a partition between thoracic and abdominal cavities?
diaphragm
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cartilages of ribs 8 , 9 and 10. Thereafter the following ribs at an increasing distance from their sternal ends. ( part of diaphragm )
Costal part
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the upper part of the xiphoid. ( part of diaphragm )
Sternal part
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Hiatus which transmits:
● Aorta ,
● Vena azygos,
● Cisterna chylli.
Aortic hiatus
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Hiatus which transmits:
● esophagus
● esophageal branch of gastric artery,
● Vagus nerves.
Esophageal hiatus
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Foramen which transmits the vena cava
Caval foramen
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● Air or gas in the pleural space
Pneumothorax
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● Thoracic empyema (accumulation of pus in the thoracic cavity)
Pyothorax
