Reapiration Flashcards
What is the beginning of the respiratory system?
Nosw
What is the passage way for food and air?
Pharynx
What is the upper respiratory system?
What is lower respiratory system?
Everything above voice box
Below voice box
What is specifically in upper respiratory?
Nose, pharynx, stops and larynx (voice box)
What is specifically in lower respiratory?
Larynx (voice box), trachea,
What lacks cartilaginous rings?
Bronchioles
Inspiration vs exploration
Inspiration si to breathe in
Expiration is to breathe out
What are the 4 divisions of the respiratory systm?
Pulmonary respiration
External respiration
Internal respiration
Cellular respiration
What is pulmonary respiration
Air into lungs
What is external respiration?
Lungs to blood
What is internal respiration
Bloood to cell
What is cellular respiration
Moving oxygen from the cell into the mitochondria
What are the four sinuses? What happens when these are infected?
Frontal (
Sphenoid bone(back of nose)
Ethmoid sinus
Maxillary (upper teeth are in)
It becomes sinusitis
What is nasal pherynx?
Conects nose to throat
The palatine tonsils are located in?
Oropharynx