Respiratory 1 Flashcards
What zone brings air into and out of the lungs, and humidity, warm, and filter air?
Conducting zone
What zone is composed of:
Nostrils, naval cavities, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles?
Conducting zone
What more is lived with alveoli where gas exchange occurs?
Respiratory zone
What zone is composed of:
Respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts and sacs?
Respiratory zone
What are the mucosa-covered turbinate bones that warm and humidity inhaled air? They also cool arterial blood that supplies the brain?
Conchae
What prevents aspiration of food into the trachea
Epiglottis
What is the common passageway for food and air?
Pharynx
What contains the organ of phonation?
Larynx
What is the site of insertion of an et tube?
Glottis
In horses, what is caused by laryngeal neuropathy?
Roaring
What are transition structures that HAVE cilia and smooth muscle, but alveoli ONLY occasionally bud off their walls?
Respiratory bronchioles
What are lined with alveoli, NO cilia and little smooth muscle, terminate in alveolar said?
Alveolar ducts
What are pouch-like evaginations of the walls of the respiratory bronchioles, the alveolar ducts and the alveolar sacs?
Alveoli
What has thin walls, rimmed with elastic fibers and lined with epithelial alls?
Alveoli
What covers 95% of alveolar surface?
Squamous
