Respiratory/urinary System Flashcards
Air flow into lungs
Lower intrapulmonary pressure (inhale) below atmospheric pressure
Inhale = increase volume= decrease pressure
Air flow out of the lungs
Exhaling= decrease volume= increase pressure
Resistance in which affect ventilation
- Pulmonary compliance - ease in which air flows
- Diameter of bronchioles
Bronchocontriction or bronchodilation
Alveolar surface tension
Thin water filaments needed
( two hydrogens bond) = collapse of alevoli and bonchials
- pulmonary surfactant = (great alveolar cells)
Decrease surface tension
– Premature infants (lack surfactant)
Alveolar ventilation
Air only enters alveoli for gas exchange
NOT ALL INHALED AIR GETS THERE
Anatomical dead space- conduction division (no gas exchange)
Physiological- (total) dead space- pulmonary diseases
Respiratory volumes
- Tidal volume (volume of breath one full volume)
- Inspiratory reserve volume (inspiration can be inhaled with max effort)
- Expiratory reserve volume (expiration can be exhaled with maximum effort)
- Residual volume (alveoli inflated) air that remains in lungs even after maximum expiration
Total lung capacity
TLC= RV (residual capacity) and VC (vital capacity)
Vital capacity
Amount of air that can be exhaled with effort after maximum inspiration
ERV (expiration reserve volume) + TV (tidal volume) + IRV (inspiration reserve volume) = Vital capacity
Oxygen imbalances
Hypoxia- deficiency of oxygen in tissue or inability to use oxygen
Hypoxemic hypoxia
Inadequate pulmonary gas exchange
Oxygen deficiency at high elevevations
Imparired ventilation
Drowning
Foreign body respiratory
Ischemic hypoxia
Inadequate circulation of blood
Congestive heart failure
Anemia hypoxia
Anemia due to inability of the blood to carry adequate oxygen
COPD
Long-term obstruction of airflow
Major COPDS
Chronic bronchitis and emphysema
Associated with smoking
air pollution
Airbone irritants
Defects
Chronic bronchitis
Severe lower respiratory tract
Goblet cells enlarge and produce a lot of mucus
Emphysema
Alveolar wall break down
Lungs fibrotic and less elastic
Air passages collapse
Weaken thoracic muscles
Smoking and lung cancer
Lung cancer accounts for more deaths than any other cancer
-squamous cell carcinoma (most common)
Bronchial epithelium into stratified squamous from ciliated pseudostratified epithelium (change)
Larynx has 9 cartiledges
Large:
Epiglottic cartilage: superior
Thyroid cartiledge: largest (Adam’s apple)
Criticoid cartiledge: connects larynx to trachea (ring like)
Three small larynx cartiledges
Artenoid cartiledge (2)
Corniculate cartiedge (2) ; attached to arytenoid cartiedge like a pair of little horns
Cuneiform (2)
Trachea windpipe
16-20 c-shaped cartilaginous rings (hyaline)
Trachealis muscle- opening in rings, adjust airflow by expanding/contracting
Pseudostratified columnar- functions as a mucociliary escalator
Pleural fluid functions
- Reduce friction
- Create pressure gradient
- Compartimentalization: prevents spread of infections to others
Neural control of breathing
Medulla oblongata helps and pons help unconscious breathing
Medulla respiratory center is in the
Inspiration center (dorsal respiratory)
Expiration center (ventral respiratory group)
Pons respiratory center is in the
Pneumotaxic center
Apneustic center
Bronchitis
Inflammation of bronchial walls
Asthma
Excessive stimulation and bronchoconstriction
Restrict airflow
Respiratory distress syndrome
Not enough surfactant bc alveolar 2 cells
In premature infants
Pneumonia
Inflammation of lobules
Nasopharynx has ____ epithelium
Pseudostratified columnar epithelium
Oropharynx has ____ epithelium
Stratified squamous epithelium
Laryngopharynx has _____ epithelium
Stratified squamous epithelium