CH6 The Respiratory System

Question 1

Respiratory System Anatomy

Answer 1

Question 2

what is Hypercabia or Hypercapnia

and Hypoxemia?

What part of the brain regulates breathing?

Answer 2

relates to the partial pressure of CO2 in blood.

hypoximia=low O2 concentration in blood

Medulla oblongata responds to these changes (increase or decrease respiration rate)

Question 3

Path of deoxygenated blood from the heart to capillaries in alveoli and oxygenated blood back to the heart

Answer 3

deoxygenated blood travels to the alveoli from the right ventricle through the pulmonary ARTERY.

And oxygenated blood goes back to the heart into the left atrium via the pulmonary VEINS

Question 4

Vasoconstriction relation as thermoregulator

Answer 4

Vasoconstriction occurs to preserve energy from being dissipated.

Occurs in cold enviroments

Question 5

Bicarbonate buffer system and its equation

Answer 5

Question 6

what is the mucociliary escalator

Answer 6

cilia propel mucus up the respiratory tract to get rid of unwanted particles

Question 7

Macrophages

Answer 7

Can digest and engulf pathogens and signal immune system

Question 8

what are Mast cells

Answer 8

have antibodies that when triggered can promote the release of inflammatory chemicals.

This is also can be caused by allergies

Question 9

Lysozyme

Answer 9

Enzyme found in nasal cavity, saliva, and tears which degrades peptidoglycan, therefore, attacking gram positive bacteria