Lab practical -respiratory Flashcards
respiratory system major function
O2 supply and CO2 excretion 4 events that need to take place: 1. pulmonary respiration 2. external respiration 3. transport of gases 4. internal respiration
organs make up 2 zones
- respiratory (gas exchange) zone
2. conducting zone (bring air to the respiratory zone)
conducting zone (bring air to the respiratory zone)
- nose
- pharynx
- larynx
- trachea
- primary, secondary, tertiary bronchi
- bronchioles
- terminal bronchioles
respiratory (gas exchange) zone
- respiratory bronchioles
- alveolar ducts
- alveolar sacs
nose
- continuous into the nasopharynx thru nasal cavities
- provide resonance chambers for speech and produce mucus
- often a site of inflammation
pharynx (throat)
the nasal cavity opens into the pharynx thru the internal nares
3 regions:
1. nasopharynx- should serve only as air passage
2. oropharynx- common passage for food & air
3. Laryngopharynx- a common passageway for food & air
larynx
-the voice box
-passage for air only
3 major functions:
1. to provide an open airway
2. to serve as the “switching point” digesting food to the esophagus and air into the trachea
3. to serve as the voice box
major 3 larynx cartilages
- thyroid
- crichoid
- epiglottis
epiglottis
-the “gaurdian of the airway,” sealing off the glottis lining , swallowing so that food doesn’t enter the respiratory passageways
trachea
-windpipe
conducting zone bronchi
-Primary(2); secondary (3R, 2L), Tertiary (10R, 8L)
+ numerous bronchioles
respiratory zone
respiratory bronchioles (contain air sack outpocketings)
- alveolar ducts
- alveolar sac
- alveoli
lungs
- right lung has 3 lobes and 10 bronchopulmonary segments
- the left lung has 2 lobes and 8 bronchopulmonary segments
pleurae
- pleura are the serous membrane surrounding the lungs
- each lung is enclosed in its own visceral and parietal pleura