🎇RESPIRATORY🎇 Flashcards

1
Q

What body system allows a person to inhale/exhale to move O2 into the bloodstream and get rid of the waste from the lungs

A

Respiratory system

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2
Q

Anything that has to do with lungs is called what

A

Pulmonary

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3
Q

What do you call a thin tissue that covers the outside part of the lungs

A

Pleura

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4
Q

Name an organ that allows O2 to enter your body

A

Nose

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5
Q

This area of the mouth that allows the air you breath the air you breathe to become humid

A

Nasal cavity

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6
Q

Its job is to receive food, breathing, speaking

A

oral cavity

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7
Q

A fancy name for voice box

A

Larynx

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8
Q

An open/close flap

A

Epiglottis

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9
Q

A fancy name for throat

A

pharynx

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10
Q

A fancy name for windpipe

A

Trachea

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10
Q

Long tube leading food from mouth to stomach

A

Esophgus

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11
Q

Smallest airway tubes connecting bronchi to alveoli

A

Bronchioles

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12
Q

2 tubes leading from trachea to the lungs

A

Bronchi

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13
Q

Which side of the lungs has 3 lobes

A

Right lung

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13
Q

Very small air sacs where the exchange of O2 ad CO2 takes place

A

Alveoli

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14
Q

Which side of the lungs has 2 lobes

A

Left lung

15
Q

It’s a a microscopic hairlike structure whose job is to trap dirt and germs

A

Cilia

15
Q

A muscle that helps you inhale and exhale, located beneath ur lungs and heart

A

Diaphram

16
Q

Smallest blood vessel

A

capillaries

16
Q

A special type of mucus found in the lungs and throat

A

Phleg

17
Q

Blood vessel carrying blood away from the heart

A

Artery

18
Q

Blood vessel carrying blood toward the heart

A

Vein

19
Q

Inflammation of the mucous membrane

A

bronchitis

20
Q

Chronic disorder/inflammation and narrowing of the bronchial tub es and spasm

A

Asthama

20
Q

Inflammation of the air sacs in the lungs caused by bacterial tubes

A

Pneumonia

21
Q

Chronic respiratory disorder cause by the destruction of lung tissue and air sacs are lost

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Emphysema

22
Q

Bacterial infection that affects lungs. Contagious, spread through air

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Tuberculosis

23
Q

Intense fear loading to sweating, hyperventilation, racing heart, fear of death

A

Panic attack

24
Q

Hereditary disease that causes mucus membranes to produce oi much mucus

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