A&P II Flashcards
What relaxes and contract during inhalation?
What relaxes and contract during exhalation?
How does a pneumothorax occur?
What is Type I cells function?
Aids in Rapid Gas Exchange
What is Type II cells function?
Make Type I cells, secrete srufactant
What is the function of macrophages?
To dispose/eat bacteria
Where is the Respiratory Membrane and occurs at it?
CO2 and O2 are exchanged. In between alveolar and endothelial cells
What is hypocapnea
What is hypercapnea?
What causes acidosis?
What causes alkalosis?
What is Dalton’s Law?
What is Henry’s Law?
Gas has to dissolve in a fluid on alveolar epithelium
What influences rate of gas exchange?
Altitude, Excerise
How do they influence rate of gas exchange?
Exercise: Capillary PO2 drops
Altitude: Higher you go, slower the rate of exchange