GA 2

Question 1

What is clinically significant about the costodiaphragmatic and costomediastinal recesses?

Answer 1

-fluid can pool in the spaces (pathology)

Question 2

What tissues may be involved with lung cancer?

Answer 2

-lung tissue or bronchi tissue

Question 3

How may pieces of pleura are there in the body?

Answer 3

two

Question 4

What do parietal pleura adhere to? Visceral?

Answer 4

1. Thoracic wall, mediastinum, diaphragm

2. lungs, extends into the fissures

Question 5

Pleural cavity

Answer 5

potential space between the two layers of pleura that contains serous lubricating fluid to reduce friction

Question 6

If something were to fall in, would it go to the right or left bronchus?

Answer 6

right because it is more vertical than the left

Question 7

What is a bronchoscopy?

Answer 7

insertion of a bronchoscope into the trachea to visualize the main bronchi

Question 8

Pleural Cavity

Answer 8

NOT where the lungs are; a potential space filled with lubricating fluid

Question 9

Where does the Sinuatrial Nodal A. arise?

Answer 9

60% of the time the RCA; 40% of the time the Circumflex A. of the LCA