Quiz 9/23 Flashcards
What are the accessory structures?
Oral cavity, rib cage, muscles associated with rib cage (diaphragm)
What is in the upper respiratory tract?
Everything in head including larynx
Lower respiratory tract
Anything below larynx
What are the functions of the respiratory system?
Gas exchange, ventilation, protection of airways, production of sound, chemical analysis of air.
Why is gas exchange important?
It provides an enormous amount of surface are for gas exchange.
Is a DECREASE or INCREASE of surface area for gas exchange not good?
Decrease
Why is ventilation important?
It is the process of breathing in and out. It moves air to and from gas exchange.
Why is protection of airways important?
It protects gas exchange surfaces and other surfaces in airway from harmful chemicals, dehydration, extreme temperature, and invasion of pathogen.
What happens if harmful debris get into airway?
They will get to the gas exchange surfaces and damage them.
Why is production of sound important?
It allows us to speak
Why is chemical analysis important?
Sense of smell
What is respiratory mucosa?
The epithelium that lines most of the places in the airways, where gas exchange can’t take place.
What type of tissue lines the major airways?
Pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelium with goblet cells
What are goblet cells
It makes mucus
What are the purpose of the airways with too thick of lining and not enough blood flow to make it efficient for gas exchange?
Gets air to and from places where there’s gas exchange and protects gas exchange surfaces
Where does the goblet cells sit on top of?
Cilia
What happens to the air as it gets further into the lungs?
It slows down and particles fall out of the air and into the mucus where cilia beat and move the mucus up toward throat.
Mucociliary escalator
Where cilia beat and move blanket of mucus up toward the throat.
What do the chemicals in cigarette smoke do?
It paralyzes the cilia
Why do cigarette smokers cough so much?
They can’t move the gunk that’s in their lungs with cilia so they use air to move it and clear their airways.
Why are there sebaceous glands in skin?
Keeps skin flexible. Helps keep tissue moist and provides protection around nose.
What’s another word for the nose?
External/anterior nares. Nares for one. Nares for both.
What is the region just inside the external nares?
The vestibule
What is in the vestibule?
Hair called vibrissae which are coarse hairs and associated with sebaceous glands and sweat glands.
Why would you want sebaceous glands associated with the vibrissae.
Makes the vibrissae sticky where particles can stick on it so debris can get out through sneezing or nose running.
What catches the particles in external nares?
Vibrissae and sebum
What is the main bony part of the septum?
Perpendicular plate of ethmoid bone.
What is the other major part of the septum
Vomer
What is the purpose of the cartilage in septum?
By having anterior part of septum be cartilage, it decreases the likelihood of septum fracture.
What is the main cartilage in septum called?
Septal cartilage.
What is the cartilage on the bottom of septum?
Vomero nasal cartilage.
What is the septum covered with?
Epithelium
What is beneath the epithelium of the septum?
Very substantial blood supply
Why would you want a large blood supply to the septum?
WBC, and heat (protection system).
What is the purpose of the blood supply associated with septum?
Responsible for the warming and humidifying incoming air.
Deviated septum with chronic sinus infection
When sinus is not draining properly.
What is part of the ethmoid bone.
Two superiors nasal conchae and middle nasal conchae.
What is the area between the bones in nose called?
Meatus
What is the space below the inferior nasal conchae?
Inferior meatus’
Space below middle nasal conchae?
Middle meatus
Space below superior nasal conchae
Superior meatus
Which nasal conchae are their own bones?
Inferior nasal conchae
What is the purpose of the nasal conchae?
Slow down air and the swirl shape mixes air.
How does air move through the nasal cavity?
Air moves through the external nares, one of the meatus, internal (posterior) nares, nasal pharynx.
What is the nasal cavity, except the roof, called?
Nasal mucosa
What is on the roof of the nasal cavity
Lymphatic plexus which makes the tissue look yellow