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Respiratory System Flashcards

1
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The function of respiratory system

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Supplies the body with oxygen and removed carbon dioxide from the body

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The respiratory system consists of

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Nasal cavity (nose)
Pharynx (throat)
Larynx (voice box)
Trachea
2 bronchi
Bronchioles
Alveoli
Lungs

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What does the nasal cavity do?

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Where air enters

Nostrils separated into right and left by a midline septum, part cartilage part bone

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Function of nasal cavity

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Warm, moisten & filter air

Protection

Smell

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Pharynx (throat)
3 sections -

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Posterior to the nasal and oral cavities
3 sections
Nasopharynx- nasal portion of pharynx

Oropharynx- oral part of the pharynx

Laryngopharynx- laryngeal part of pharynx

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The nasopharynx, oropharynx & laryngopharynx has 3 layers of tissue which are ….

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Mucous membrane lining

Fibrous tissue

Smooth muscle tissue

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Functions of the pharynx (throat)

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Passageway for air and food
Taste
Protection

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Larynx (voice box)

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Lies at root of tongue and extends to trachea

Triangle shape made up of cartilage and muscle

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Function of larynx

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Sound
Protection
Passageway for air between pharynx & trachea

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Trachea

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Continuation of larynx
Layers - outer - fibrous and elastic tissue.

Middle - cartilage and smooth muscle

Inner - ciliated columnar epithelium

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Function of trachea?

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Support
Warming, humidifying & filtering of air
Cough reflex

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Two bronchi are formed when trachea divides.
Into right is…and left is…

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Right - wider and shorter divides into 3 one to each lobe of the lung

Left - narrower - divides into 2 branches, one to each lobe

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Bronchi subdivide into what 3 things

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Bronchioles

Alveolar ducts

Alveoli

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Bronchioles

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Small branch of bronchi
Function warming and humidifying

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What is Alveoli

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Tiny air sacs
The exchange of gases during respiration takes place here

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16
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Function of alveoli - external respiration.

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This is the exchange of gases by diffusion between the alveoli and the blood

17
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Lungs

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2 lungs each side of midline in thoracic cavity

Right divided into 3 lobes
Left divided into 2 lobes to accommodate heart

18
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What is pleura?

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Serous membrane which folds back on its self forming two layered membrane within the lungs

19
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Inner and outer pleura is called

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Inner visceral pleura

Outer parietal pleura

20
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Pleural cavity ?

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Lies between contains serous fluid

21
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What is the adult respiratory rate of breaths per minute?

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14-15 breaths

22
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What are intercostal muscles?

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Thin sheets of muscle running across the gaps between the ribs

23
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Disorders of the respiratory system

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Cold
Bronchitis
Pharyngitis
Laryngitis

24
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External respiration

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The way oxygen gets from the lungs into the blood

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