Exam 3 Flashcards
Dyspnea means?
Difficulty breathing.
The trachea is also known as the what?
The windpipe
The smallest subdivision of the air passages?
Alveoli
Conducting system?
Trachea through terminal bronchioles
Gas exchange areas?
Respiratory bronchioles through alveolar sacs.
Fused to the surface of each lung?
Visceral pleura
Line the walls of the thorax?
Parietal pleura
Mediastinal pleurae?
The parietal pleura that covers the sides of the partition between the two pleural cavities.
Potential space?
The space between the visceral and parietal layers is the thoracic or pleural cavity.
Pleural effusion?
When fluid accumulates in excess in the pleural cavity
Mediastinum?
The space or partition between the two pleural cavities
Diaphragm?
A dome-shaped sheet of muscle which separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities.
What is the chief muscle of inspiration?
The diaphragm
