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The respiratory system Flashcards

1
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What is external respiration?

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gaseous exchange between the air and blood

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What is internal or tissue respiration?

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gaseous exchange between blood and the tissues

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Where does gaseous exchange take place?

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the pulmonary membrane within the alveoli

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What is gaseous exchange?

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Oxygen diffuses from the inspired air into the blood and carbon dioxide diffuses from the blood into the expired air

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5
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where does carbon dioxide come from?

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formed by the tissues during metabolism

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6
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What does the respiratory system consist of?

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Nose
Pharynx
Larynx
Trachea
Bronchi and bronchioles 
Alveoli
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7
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What does the upper respiratory tract consist of?

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Nose
pharynx
Larynx
Trachea

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What does the lower respiratory tract consist of?

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Bronchi and bronchioles

Alveoli

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What is the epidermis at the entrance to the nasal cavity called?

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The rhinarium

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10
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What tissue is the Rhinarium made of?

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A thick layer of stratified squamous epithelium

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11
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What are the turbinates or conchae?

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scrolls of bone

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What is the name of the rostral part of the turbinates that is visible through the nostril?

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the alar fold

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13
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What is the term for bleeding from the nose?

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Epistaxis

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What is Epistaxis?

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Haemorrhage originating from the nose

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What is the term for the sensory nerve endings that are responsible for smell?

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The olfactory region

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What is the olfactory region?

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the mucous epithelium covering the turbinates at the back of the nasal chambers that has a right supply of nerve endings that are responsive to smell

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17
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What is the function of the turbinates and their ciliated mucous epithelium covering?

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to warm and moisten the incoming air as it passes over them.

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18
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What is the function of the cilia on the turbinates?

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to help to trap any particles that are present in inspired air and waft them back the the nasal cavity

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19
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What is a sinus?

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an air filled cavity within a bone

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What is the name for the sinuses in the respiratory system?

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Paranasal sinuses

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21
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Where are the paranasal sinuses situated?

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within the facial bones of the skull

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22
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Where does the frontal sinus lie?

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within the frontal bone

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23
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Where does the maxillary sinus lie?

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the caudal end of the nasal cavity

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24
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What if the maxillary sinus?

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not a true sinus but a recess in the nasal cavity

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25
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what is the function of the paranasal sinuses?

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the lighten the weight of the skull, allowing the areas of the skull used for muscle attachment to be larger.

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26
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Total Lung Capacity

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The total volume of air in the lungs

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27
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Tidal volume

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The volume of air breathed in or out in one normal breath

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28
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Functional residual volume

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The volume of air left in the lungs after one normal breath

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29
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Vital capacity

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The maximum volume of air that can be forced out of the lungs

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30
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Residual volume

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The volume of air left in the lungs after forces air expiration

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31
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Anatomical dead space

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The volume of air which does not reach the alveoli (this is equal to the volume of the trachea, bronchi and bronchioles)

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32
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Respiratory minute volume

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The volume of gas inhaled or exhale from the lungs per minute.

33
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Hering–Breuer reflex

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A reflex triggered to prevent over-inflation of the lung (Pulmonary stretch receptors present in the smooth muscle of the airways respond to excessive stretching of the lung during large inspirations).

34
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Respiratory cycle

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The events that occur to drive air flow into the lungs; when the diaphragm contracts to expand the thoracic cage and decrease the pressure inside of the chest. The events that occur during one breath; inhalation and exhalation.

35
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What is Diffusion?

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molecules moving from an area of high concentration (of that molecule) to an area of low concentration.

36
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How thick are the walls of the alveolar?

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one cell thick

37
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What is the approximate oxygen content of air inhaled?

38
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What is the approximate carbon dioxide consent of air inhaled?

39
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What is the approximate oxygen content of air exhaled?

40
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What is the approximate carbon dioxide contend of air exhaled?

41
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What is the central plate of the nasal cavity known as?

42
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What separates the nasal cavity?

43
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what is the septum made of?

44
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What organ is responsible for the detection of pheromones?

A

Vomeronasal Organ

45
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What is the Vomeronasal Organ?

A

The organ responsible for the detection of pheromones

46
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What are the ethmoidal conchae?

A

folds of bone that remove dust and pathogens from air inhaled and warm and moisten it

47
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What is the nasopharynx connected to?

A

the caudal nasal cavity

48
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What is the oropharynx connected to?

A

the caudal oral cavity

49
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Thyroid

A

largest cartilage and forms the floor of the larynx

50
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Arytenoid

A

forms the inside of the larynx and supports the vocal cords.

51
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Cricoid

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ring like structure which articulates with the thyroid cartilage and the trachea.

52
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What is the Larynx?

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a box like structure made of cartilage and consists of the epiglottis which is attaches the to tongue and thyroid gland

53
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What is the epiglottis attached to?

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the tongue and thyroid cartilage

54
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What is the function of the larynx?

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to prevent deglutination (swallowing), vocalisation and regulate floe of gasses into the respiratory tract

55
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What is the function of the trachea?

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to allow airflow from the larynx to the lungs

56
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What does the trachea consist of?

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c-shaped cartilage connected by fibrous tissue and smooth muscle lines with ciliated epithelium

57
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What is the trachea lined with?

A

ciliated epithelium

58
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Where does the trachea pass into the thorax?

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the thoracic inlet

59
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What is the name of the branches that the trachea spits into?

60
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at what point does the trachea branch into the bronchi?

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at the level of the heart

61
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What happens to the C-shaped rings as they trachea branches into the bronchi?

A

they form complete rings

62
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What does the bronchi divide into?

A

Bronchioles

63
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what do the Bronchioles end in?

A

the alveolar ducts

64
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Where do the lungs lie?

A

in the thoracic cavity on either side of the mediastinum

65
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What are the lungs covered with?

A

Pulmonary pleura

66
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What is parenchyma?

A

Connective tissues in the lungs

67
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What do the lungs consist of?

A 
bronchi
bronchioles
alveoli
blood vessels
parenchyma (connective tissue)
68
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What does the left lung consist of?

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cranial, middle and caudal lobe

69
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What does the right lung consist of?

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cranial, middle, caudal and accessory lobes

70
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What is the guttural pouch

A

They are sacs of air that expand from the Eustachian tube in the horse

71
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What is the Eustachian tube?

A

a tube that links the nasopharynx to the middle ear

72
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What does the Rima glottides do in the horse?

A

prevents materials being inhaled

73
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What are the lungs in the avian respiratory system protected by?

A

the notarium

74
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What do birds have instead of a diaphragm?

A

9 air sacs

75
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What is a birds body cavity referred to as?

A

the coelom

76
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What is the Syrinx?

A

voice box of a bird

77
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What is the term for a birds voice box?

78
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Where is the syrinx located?

A

caudal side of the trachea

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