Exam 4 Flashcards
Gas conditioning
Adding heat and moisture to air we breathe in
What is the nasal cavity and oral cavity separated by?
Hard palate (palatine bone + maxilla)
Another name for pharynx?
Throat
Another name for Larynx?
Voice box
Another name for trachea?
Wind pipe
What are the nasal cavities? What do they do?
-Superior/Middle/Inferior nasal conchas (covered in mucosa) - Gas condition
What are the paranasal sinuses? What do they do?
-Frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid, maxilla -Lightens skull
Where is Nasopharynx located?
-Above palate, in throat
What is lining for Nasopharynx?
Pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelium
Where is the pharyngeal tonsils located? What is the other name for it?
- Nasopharynx
- Adenoids
What is the lining for Oropharynx and Laryngopharynx?
Nonkeratinized stratified sqaumous (think protection from hot/sharp foods)
Fauces
- Opening of oral cavity –> oropharynx
- Pair of muscular arches
Where are palatine tonsils located?
- Fauces (in oropharynx)
Where are lingual tonsils located?
- Base of tongue
Where is the oropharynx located?
Below soft palate
Lining - Larynx? (Superior & inferior)
Superior: Nonkeratinized stratified squamous epithelium
Inferior: Pseudostratified Ciliated Columnar epithelium
Lining - Trachea?
- Pseudostratified Ciliated Columnar Epithelium
Lining - Bronchi? (large)
Pseudostratified Ciliated Columnar Epithelium
Lining - Bronchioles?
Simple Columnar (larger) –> Simple cuboidal (smaller)
Lining - Respiratory Bronchioles
Simple Cuboidal Epithelium
Lining - Alveolar ducts & Alveoli?
Simple Squamous
What are the cartilages of the Larynx?
- Thyroid cartilage
- Cricoid cartilage
- Epiglottis
Minor: Arytenoids, corniculate/cuneiform
Trachea
- Wind Pipe
- C-shaped hyaline cartilage (front and sides of trachea)
- Trachealis muscle @ back
Bronchiole tree consists of?
- Primary Bronchi
- Secondary Bronchi (Lobars)
- Tertiary Bronchi (Segmental)
Bronchioles
- Less than 1mm in diamater
- Made of smooth (involuntary) muscle
- Bronchoconstriction (sympathetic)
- Bronchodilation (parasympathetic)
Alveoli (alvelous)?
-Where diffusion of gases occur
Pulmonary Surfactant
- Chemical that keeps air sacs of alveolus open
- By decreasing surface tension
Respiratory Membrane
- Diffusion barrier where respiratory gases are exchanged between blood and air in alveoli
- Fused membrane of Type I alveolar cell and Capillary cell
Thryoid Cartilage
- Adam’s Apple (aka Laryngeal prominence)
- Biggest, doesn’t cover back
Cricoid Cartilage
- Small in front, big in back (ring shaped)