Chapter :23 Respiratory System Physiology (lecture 14 and 15)

Question 1

In the Respiratory system what does cell use and what do they release?

Answer 1

Cells continually use O2 and release CO2

Question 2

What is the respiratory designed for?

Answer 2

For gas exchange

Question 3

What does cardiovascular system transport and where?

Answer 3

Transport gases in blood

Question 4

failure of both system (cardiovascular and respiratory)

Answer 4

Rapid cell death from O2 starvation

Question 5

what is the olfactory epithelium for?

Answer 5

sense of smell

Question 6

Paranasal does what?

Answer 6

lighten skull and resonate voice

Question 7

Pharynx  functions? 
3 things ( micro essay)

Answer 7

• passageway for food and air
• resonating chamber for speech production
• tonsil (lymphatic tissue) in the walls protects entryway into body

Question 8

Nasopharynx

Answer 8

passageway for air only

Question 9

Oropharynx

Answer 9

Common passageway for food and air

Question 10

Laryngopharynx

Answer 10

common passageway for food and air and ends as esophagus inferiority

Question 11

Thyroid cartilage forms what?

Answer 11

Adam’s apple

Question 12

What happens during swallowing?

Answer 12

larynx moves upward

epiglottis bends to cover glottis

Question 13

What does true vocal cords contain?

Answer 13

Skeletal and elastic ligamnet

Question 14

what happens when 10 intrinsic muscles contract?

Answer 14

cartilage moves and stretch vocal cord tight

Question 15

how is sound produced?

Answer 15

When air is pushed past tight ligament

Question 16

what produces a lower pitch?

Answer 16

the longer and

thicker the vocal cord is

Question 17

what produces a higher pitch?

Answer 17

the tighter the ligament

Question 18

how do you increase volume?

Answer 18

push air harder

Question 19

what is intubation?

Answer 19

passing a tube from mouth or nose through larynx and trachea