Block 2 Flashcards
What structures are part of the upper respiratory tract?
Nose, nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, pharynx, larynx
What structures are part of the lower respiratory tract
Trachea, bronchi, lungs
What are the muscles of inspiration?
Sternocleidomastoid, scalenes, external intercostals, parasternal intercostals and diaphragm.
What are the muscles of forced expiration?
Abdominal muscles (external+ internal oblique, internal intercostals, transversus abdominus and rectus abdominus)
What are the conducting airways?
All respiratory passages that move air into and out of the lungs. Warm+ cleanse incoming air. (No gas exchange)
What are the respiratory passages?
Deep within lung where gas exchange occurs. Respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts, alveoli. Thin walls.
What is the main epithelium in the respiratory passages?
Pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelium with goblet cells.
What are the four sinuses associated with the nose?
Frontal, ethmoid, maxillary and sphenoid.
What is the role of the olfactory mucosa and where is it located?
Sensory receptors for smell on the roof of the nasal cavity.
What is the role of the nose?
Provides airway, filters, humidities and warms incoming air. Resonating chamber and olfaction.
What four things drains into the middle meatus?
Frontal sinus, maxillary sinus and ant+middle ethmoid sinus.
What two things drain into the superior meatus?
Posterior ethmoidal sinus and sphenoid sinus (sphenoethmoidal sinus)
What is the name of the duct connecting to the eye that drains into the inferior meatus?
Nasolacrimal duct
What are the two tonsils of the nose/nasopharynx?
Pharyngeal (adenoid) and tubal tonsil.
Where does the Eustachian tube drain to and from?
From middle ear to nasopharynx
What is the name of the area in the nose prone to nose bleeds and why is this?
Littles area on the medial wall of the nasal cavity. Where the four main arteries of the nose anastomose.
What are the three sections of the pharynx and what are their margins?
Nasopharynx=Base of skull to uvula+ soft palate
Oropharynx=Soft palate to epiglottis
Laryngopharynx=Epiglottis to cricoid
What are the superior and inferior margins of the larynx?
Superior=Laryngeal inlet Inferior=Cricoid cartilage
What is the larynx involved in?
Phonation, cough reflex, protection of lower respiratory tract
What are the 3 unpaired structures of the larynx?
Epiglottis, thyroid and cricoid cartilage.
What are the 3 paired structures of the larynx?
Arytenoid, cuneiform and corniculate.
What is the job of the vestibular folds?
Preventing food entering airway during swallowing. Sid phonation by depressing dysphonia
What does dysphonia mean?
Hoarse voice
What is the role of the cricothyroid muscle in phonation?
Stretches and tenses the vocal folds.