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What is Pulmonary Ventilation? Explain

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Inhalation (Inspiration): flow of air into lungs

Exhalation (Expiration): flow of air out of lungs

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What is Pulmonary Respiration?

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Exchange of gases across the respiratory membrane

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What is Tissue Respiration?

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Exchange of gasses between the blood and tissue cells

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What is Cellular Respiration?

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The metabolic reactions that consume oxygen and release carbon dioxide in the production of ATP

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What does pulmonary mean?

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Lungs

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Structural Divisions of the Respiratory System

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Nose, Pharynx (throat), Larynx (voicebox), Trachea (windpipe), Bronchi, Lungs

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Upper Respiratory System

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Nose, Pharynx

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Lower Respiratory System

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Larynx, Trachea, Bronchi, Lungs

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2 Functional Divisions

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  1. Conducting Zone

2. Respiratory Zone

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Structures of the conducting zone

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Nose, Pharynx, Larynx, Trachea, Bronchi, Bronchioles, and Terminal Bronchioles

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Functions of the conducting zone

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  1. Filter, warm, and moisten air and to conduct it to the lungs
  2. To receive olfactory stimuli
  3. Sound generation for speech
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Respiratory Zone Structures

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Respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts, alveolar sacs, alveoli

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Respiratory Zone Functions

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Gas Exchange

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Describe the Nose

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  1. Olfactory Receptors
  2. Rich Blood Supply
  3. Sticky Mucous Particulate
  4. Ciliated Cells
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What do Ciliated Cells in the nose do?

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Move the mucous to the throat where it is swallowed and digested

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Pharynx A.k.a

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Throat

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Where is the Pharynx located? Describe it

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Behind the nasal cavity and above the larynx

Funnel-shaped tube

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Pharynx’s Functions

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  1. Passageway for air and food
  2. Resonating chamber for sounds
  3. Housing for tonsils
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What is at the Pharynx’s inferior end?

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Esophagus and larynx

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Larynx A.k.a

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Voice box

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Functions of the Larynx

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  1. Voice production

2. Routes air and food into their proper channels

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Where is the larynx located?

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Inferior to where the pharynx splits into the trachea and the esophagus

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What protects the top of the larynx?

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The Epiglottis

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Trachea A.k.a

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Where is the trachea located?
Anterior to the esophagus
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Describe the Trachea
1. Fairly rigid 2. Lined with mucous membrane to filter particulate 3. Cilia
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What supports the trachea's shape?
C shaped rings of hyaline cartilage reinforce and support its shape
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What does the Cilia do in the Trachea?
Sweeps particulate out of the trachea to the throat for expectoration or digestion
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How and where do the bronchi divide?
At the 5th Thoracic vertebrae divides into right and left primary bronchi which travels to the right and left lungs
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What is present where the trachea divides?
An internal ridge called the Carina
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What is the carina important for?
It is one of the most sensitive areas of the trachea and larynx for triggering a cough reflex
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What are the lungs?
Two organs separated by the heart and other structures in the mediastinum
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Where is the mediastinum located?
Its the region in the thoracic cavity between the lungs. | Sternum to vertebrae, 1st rib to clavicle
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What is the top and bottom of the mediastinum called?
Top: Apex Bottom: Base
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Within the lungs, each bronchus subdivides into smaller and smaller units. What are they called?
- Secondary Bronchi (3 on right, 2 on left) - Tertiary Bronchi - Bronchioles - Terminal Bronchioles - Alveoli
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Smooth muscle and cartilage in the lungs..
Smooth Muscle Increases | Cartilage Decreases
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Describe the alveoli
- Cup Shaped outpouching - Lined simple squamous epithelium - Supported by thin, elastic basement membrane
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What are alveolar sacs?
2 or more alveoli that share a common opening
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Functions of alveolar cells
- Gas Exchange - Fluid secretion - Alveolar macrophages remove dust - Fibroblasts make reticular and elastic fibres
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What reduces the alveoli to collapse?
Fluid secreted by alveolar cells contain surfactant, which reduces surface tension
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How does the alveoli tie into blood supply with the lungs?
- Surrounded by capillaries - Gas exchange happens through diffusion across alveolar and capillary walls - Oxygen from air to blood - CO2 from blood to air
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What do the alveoli and capillaries form? What is it made of?
Respiratory Membrane - Alveolar Epithelium - Basement Membrane (underlying alveolar epithelium) - Basement Membrane (underlying endothelium) - Endothelium
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Oxygen Transport
- Most carried from lungs to body tissues bound to hemoglobin - Little dissolved in blood - Goes to tissue and is used
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Carbon Dioxide Transport
- Most carried in blood in form, bicarbonate (HCO2) - Some carried attached to Hb (carboxyhemoglobin) - Little dissolved into blood - Released at lungs and exhaled
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Each lung is closed in and protected by. Describe its structure.
Pleural Membrane | -Double layered serous membrane
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The layer of pleural membrane that covers the lungs
Visceral Pleura
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The layer of pleural membrane that covers the inside of the thoracic cavity
Parietal Pleura
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The space between the visceral and parietal pleura. What does it contain?
Pleura Cavity, contains lubricating fluid
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Describe inhalation
- Mm contraction expands lungs and thoracic cage - Thoracic volume increases - Thoracic pressure decreases - Air rushes in to normalize pressure
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Describe exhalation
- Passive process (at rest) - Muscles relax, elastic recoil of thoracic cage - Thoracic volume decreases - Thoracic volume increases - Air rushes out to normalize pressure
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The largest volume of air that can be brought into the lungs
Forced Vital Capacity (FVC)
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The volume of air that can be exhaled in 1 second (after maximal inhalation
Forced Expiratory Volume (FEV1)
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The volume of air in one regular breathe
Tidal Volume (Vt)
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Where is the respiratory control centre?
Brainstem (Medulla Oblongata)
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What does the respiratory control centre control?
Rhythm and rate of breathing
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What detects rising concentrations of HO2 and H+? How do they respond?
Central Chemoreceptors | Increasing Ventilation
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Where are peripheral chemoreceptors found? What do they do?
Carotid arteries, arch of the aorta | -Respond to rising CO2, H+, and dropping O2 concentrations and respond by increasing ventilation

Phys Test 3 & 4 (4 decks)

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