Ch 23 Respiratory Anatomy Flashcards
Main functions of respiratory system
- Air Distributor
- Gas exchange
- Filters, warms, and humidifies air
- Influences speech
- Allows for sense of smell
Upper respiratory tract features 4 main
Head and neck
Paranasal sinuses
Pharynx
Larynx
Paranasal sinuses features
- Frontal sinus
- Sphenoidal sinus
Pharynx features
- Nasopharynx
- Oropharynx
- Laryngopharynx
Larynx features
- Epiglottis
- Thyroid cartilage
- Cricoid cartilage
Lower respiratory tract mains
Thorax
thorax features
- Trachea
- Bronchi
- Lungs
All incoming air stops where
alveoli
2 zones of the functional division
conducting zone
respiratory zone
conducting zone function
- Passages that serve only for airflow
- No gas exchange
- Nostrils to major bronchioles
respiratory zone function
- Alveoli and other minimal gas exchange regions
main conducting airway for inhaled air…
the nose
3 anatomical portions of the nose
superior half
inferior half
ala nasi
superior half of nose
- Nasal bones maxillae
inferior half of nose
- Lateral and alar cartilages
- Ala nasi
- Flared portion at lower end of nose
to coronae
posterior region, opening to nasopharynx
vestibule
- Beginning of nasal cavity
- Lined with stratified squamous epithelium
- Vibrissae
- Stiff hairs, blocking debris
- Nasal fossae
- Right and left halves of nasal cavity
- Nasal septum
- Bone and hyaline cartilage
- Vomer forms inferior region
- Perpendicular plate of ethmoid forms superior region
- Septal cartilage forms anterior region
- Roof of nasal cavity
- Ethmoid bone
- Sphenoid bones
- Floor of nasal cavity has what bones
- Hard plate
- Maxillary bones
- Palatine bones
- Seperates nasal cavity from the oral cavity
- Nasal conchae
- Superior, middle, and inferior nasal conchae
- Project from lateral walls toward septum
meatus
narrow air passage below each concha
- Erectile tissue (swell body)
- Venous plexus in inferior
- Swelling every 30 to 60 minutes
- Restricts airflow in one fosse and directs air through other
- Recover from drying
- Air shifts between the right and left nostrils once or twice an hour
- Nasal mucosa
- Respiratory epithelium
- Epithelial layer
- Ciliated pseudo stratified columnar epithelium
- Goblet cells produce mucus
- Cilia, propel mucus posterior toward pharynx
- Mucus swallowed into digestive tract
- Olfactory epithelium
- Sensory neurons - detects odors
- Immobile cilia bind odorant molecules
- Small area of the roof of the nasal cavity, adjacent parts of the septum and superior concha
the pharynx extends…
- Muscular funnel (5 in.) extending from choanae to larynx
3 regions of pharynx
nasopharynx
oropharynx
laryngopharynx