RESPIRATORY AND DIGESTIVE SYSTEM Flashcards
What is the principal muscle for breathing?
Diaphragm
The right lung is divided into three lobes by what fissures?
Oblique and horizontal fissure
During exercise, high levels of oxygen is required. What is the maximum volume of air a person can expel from the lungs after a maximum inhalation?
Vital capacity
Which lung volum is added to the inspiratory reserves volume to complete the inspiratory capacity?
Tidal Volume
What muscle contracts during quiet expiration?
External intercostal muscle
What vlood vessel carries deoxygenatwd blood from the heart to the lungs?
Pulmonary artery
What is the funtions of the pulmonary surfactant
Prevents collapse of the alveoli
What is the lining of the tracheal mucosa?
Pseudostratified ciliated columnar
Talking is part of what phase of breathing?
Pre-exhalation
What breathing pattern do you call the cessation of breathing for a few seconds?
Apnea
Which of the following is recently a preferred structural and functional unit of the liver?
Hepatic lobule
Where are taenia coli found?
Colon
Which of the following is the characteristic feature of duodenum
Mucus-secreting Brunner glands in the submucosa
The following lingual papillae have taste buds EXCEPT
Filiform
The following digestive organs are lined by simple columnar epithelium except:
-small intestine
-esophagus
-stomach
-large intestine
Esophagus
