🎇RESPIRATORY🎇 Flashcards
What body system allows a person to inhale/exhale to move O2 into the bloodstream and get rid of the waste from the lungs
Respiratory system
Anything that has to do with lungs is called what
Pulmonary
What do you call a thin tissue that covers the outside part of the lungs
Pleura
Name an organ that allows O2 to enter your body
Nose
This area of the mouth that allows the air you breath the air you breathe to become humid
Nasal cavity
Its job is to receive food, breathing, speaking
oral cavity
A fancy name for voice box
Larynx
An open/close flap
Epiglottis
A fancy name for throat
pharynx
A fancy name for windpipe
Trachea
Long tube leading food from mouth to stomach
Esophgus
Smallest airway tubes connecting bronchi to alveoli
Bronchioles
2 tubes leading from trachea to the lungs
Bronchi
Which side of the lungs has 3 lobes
Right lung
Very small air sacs where the exchange of O2 ad CO2 takes place
Alveoli
Which side of the lungs has 2 lobes
Left lung
It’s a a microscopic hairlike structure whose job is to trap dirt and germs
Cilia
A muscle that helps you inhale and exhale, located beneath ur lungs and heart
Diaphram
Smallest blood vessel
capillaries
A special type of mucus found in the lungs and throat
Phleg
Blood vessel carrying blood away from the heart
Artery
Blood vessel carrying blood toward the heart
Vein
Inflammation of the mucous membrane
bronchitis
Chronic disorder/inflammation and narrowing of the bronchial tub es and spasm
Asthama
