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What is ostiod?
Unmineralised bone
What are lacunae?
Small spaces in compact bone
Home to osteocytes
What are osteocytes?
Osteoblasts that have become surrounded in the bone matrix
What are the 3 stages of stress?
Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion
What is FVC?
Forced viral capacity
Total amount of air exhaled during FEV test
How to measure FEV and FVC?
Spirometery
What is FEV1?
Forced expiratory volume in 1 second
What does PICO stand for?
Population
Intervention
Comparison
outcome
What is VQ ratio?
Air getting in to alveoli and blood flow to lungs
What does V stand for?
Ventilation
What does Q stand for?
Perfusion
Where is ventilation greatest in lung?
Base
What is hypoxemia?
Low oxygen in blood
Hypocapnia?
Low co2 in blood
What is metastasis?
Cancer cells moving from place they first grew to another place in body
What do chemoreceptors detect in breathing?
Change in blood PO2 PCO2
When PCO2 is increased or pH decreased what happen?
Central chemoreceptors activated to increase ventilation
What happens when decrease in PO2?
Peripheral chemoreceptors activated to increase ventilation
Where are central chemoreceptors?
Cluster of neurons in brain stem
Where are peripheral chemoreceptors?
Carotid sinus and aortic arch
What plays major role in moment to moment breathing?
PCO2
What do mechanoreceptors detect?
Changes in lung and chest wall
What happens in lung inflates?
Signals sent via vagus nerve to NTS
Ventilation adjusted
What receptor picks up inflation or distension of airways? What happens?
Mechanoreceptors in Airway smooth muscle
Terminates inspiration