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UNIT 5 - RESPIRATORY SYSTEM Flashcards

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Respiratory system

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Group of organs and tissues used for gas exchange (breathing)

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Main respiratory structures (8)

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  • Nasal cavity (nose
  • Mouth
  • Pharynx (throat)
  • Larynx (voice box)
  • Trachea (windpipe)
  • Bronchi (large airways)
  • Bronchioles (small airways)
  • Lungs
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Nasal cavity

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Provides airway for respiration and moistens/warms the entering air. Filtering of air by hairs the mucous (lysozyme) and contains olfactory receptors

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Pharynx

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Common passageway for air from nasal and buccal cavity to trachea

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Larynx

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Common path for food and air to separate controlled by swallow reflex and epiglottis. Also the voice box

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Epiglottis

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Flap of cartilage that protects the glottis, opening to the trachea

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Trachea

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Long U shape tube connecting larynx to lungs supported by cartilage rings to put air into and out of the lungs

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Thyroid cartilage

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2 large plates of cartilage on anterior wall of larynx (adams apple)

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Bronchi

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Two primary bronchi branch into secondary and tertiary bronchi and takes air into lungs from trachea

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Right primary bronchus

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Serves the right lung

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Left primary bronchus

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Serves the left lung

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Bronchioles

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Further divisions of the tertiary bronchi, the air passage inside the lungs

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Branching of bronchial tree in order (9)

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  • Trachea
  • Primary bronchi
  • Secondary bronchi
  • Bronchioles
  • Terminal bronchioles
  • Respiratory bronchioles
  • Alveolar duct
  • Alveolar sac
  • Alveoli
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Alveoli

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Air sacs at the end of bronchioles made of a single layer of squamous epithelial cells surrounded by capillaries where gas exchange occurs and accounts for most of the lungs volume with the largest surface area

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How many alveoli do we have

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300 million

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Alveolar epithelial cells (3)

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  • Forms nearly continuous lining
  • Flat shape
  • Main site of gas exchange
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Other characteristics of alveolar cells (3)

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  • Free surfaces contain microvilli secreting surfactant
  • Reduce tendency to collapse
  • Macrophages
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Breathing

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Process of getting oxygen into lungs and carbon dioxide out of the lungs

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Thoracic cavity

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Sealed cavity that houses the lungs and the heart

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Rib cage

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Surrounds the lungs for protection

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Diaphragm

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Muscle that helps to inhale and exhale and separates the lungs from the abdomen

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Lungs

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Major organ in chest to transport oxygen and remove carbon dioxide surrounded by two membranes (pleural membranes)

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2 types of pleural membranes:

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  • Parietal pleura (outer): attached to walls of thoracic cavity and lines inner surface
  • Visceral pleura (inner): Covers the lungs
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Pleural cavity

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Fluid filled space between pleural membranes for lubrication between lung & wall of chest cavity, and to hold the two membranes together ensuring lungs don’t collapse

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Inspiration (inhalation)

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Process of taking air into lungs, breathing in

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Expiration (Exhalation)

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Process of removing air from lungs, breathing out

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Inhalation process (4)

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  • Air sucked in lung
  • Diaphragm contracts and move down
  • External intercostal muscles contract and ribs move upward & outward
  • Volume of chest cavity increases, decreasing pressure to -1mm Hg in lungs until 0 (atmospheric pressure)
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Exhalation process (4)

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  • Air is forced out lungs
  • Diaphragm relaxes and moves up
  • External intercostals relax and ribs move downward & inward
  • Volume of chest cavity decreases, increasing pressure to +1mm Hg in lungs until intrapulmonary pressure is 0
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Relaxed exhalation

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Muscle relaxation

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Forced exhalation

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Muscle relaxation and contraction of internal intercostal and abdominal muscles to increase thoracic pressure, aiding in the rapid expulsion of air from the lungs

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What mechanism controls breathing

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Autonomic nervous system (involuntary), however we can control the rate and depth of breathing

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Breathing control center

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AKA pons and medulla oblongata (also the cardiac centers)

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Relationship between breathing control center and cardiac center

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The more the heart beats, the more breathing occurs. This is because as the heart beats faster, it uses more energy and sends more oxygen to body

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Medulla general function

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Sends signals to muscles that control respiration

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Medulla (inspiratory center)

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Accounts for normal inspiration by sending impulses to inspiratory muscles every few seconds and also activates during exercise

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Medulla (expiratory center)

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Expiration is typically passive due to relaxation of unstimulated inspiratory muscles, but during exercise it stimulates expiratory muscles to cause forceful exhalation

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Pons general function

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Control rate or speed of respiration

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Pons (pneumotaxic area)

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Limits duration of inspiration and increases inspiration rate by sending inhibitory impulses to inspiratory area to prevent lungs from overfilling (eg. Exercise)

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Pons (apneustic area)

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Increases duration of inspiration and decreases inspiration rate by sending inhibitory impulses to the inspiratory area to lengthen the inspiratory period (eg. Occurs when oxygen levels are lower than normal

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Hering-Breuer (inflation) reflex

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Keeps the lungs from overinflating with inspired air

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Process of inflation reflex (3)

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  • Forced inspiration stimulates stretch receptors in lining of lung and sends signals to brain
  • Signals inhibit inspiratory area and apneustic area
  • Inspiration stops and passive expiration occurs
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Breathing control centers

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Receives incoming information from pons/medulla and information gets interpreted, integrated and if required, response is initiated

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Efferent PNS (control of breathing)

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Sends a response initiated by breathing control centers to respiratory muscles (intercostal/diaphragm)

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Respiratory muscles (control of breathing)

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Respond to message from efferent PNS to increase or decrease rate/depth of breathing

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Sensory receptors:

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Located in major arteries to measure O2 and CO2 concentrations

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Afferent PNS

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Sends information of O2 and CO2 concentrations to the breathing control center

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Chemoreceptors

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Special nerve/receptor that sense changes in chemical composition of blood

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2 important chemoreceptors

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  • Central chemoreceptors
  • Peripheral chemoreceptors
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Central chemoreceptors

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Located in the medulla and respond to changes in H+ and CO2 concentrations in CSF

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Peripheral chemoreceptors

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Located in aortic bodies (aortic arch) and carotid bodies (end of common carotid) and responds to changes in H+, CO2 and O2 concentrations in blood

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Mechanism for normal blood concentrations levels

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Via negative feedback loop

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Negative feedback control for blood concentration (5)

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  • Stimulus: Some stimulus disrupts homeostasis (Increase in arterial blood PCO2 or decrease in pH/PO2)
  • Receptor: Receives stimulus by central chemoreceptors in medulla or peripheral chemoreceptors in aortic and carotid bodies send signal to inspiratory area in medulla oblongata
  • Effector: Muscles of inhalation and exhalation contract more forcefully and frequently (hyperventilation)
  • Cause decrease in arterial blood PCO2, increase in pH and PO2
  • Repeat
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Tidal volume

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The volume breathed in or out at rest (300-500ml)

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Expiratory reserve volume

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The maximum volume of air that can be forced out after normal exhalation (1000-1500ml)

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Inspiratory reserve volume

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The maximum volume of air that can be inhaled after a normal inhalation

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Vital capacity

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Maximum volume of air that can be exhaled after maximum inhalation (2800-5000ml)

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Residual volume

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Volume of air remaining in lung after maximum exhalation

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Total lung capacity

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Total volume of air that lungs are capable of holding

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Dead air space

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Air that never enters the alveoli but remains in the air passageways (150ml)

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How is oxygen transported into the blood

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Almost all of O2 (approx. 98%) is carried by an iron containing protein found inside RBC (hemoglobin) and becomes oxyhemoglobin. Each hemoglobin molecule carries 4 O2, 1 RBC contains 300 million hemoglobin = 1200 million O2 molecules per RBC

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How does oxygen get from the blood to the cell

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O2 enters blood by diffusion and is transported as oxyhemoglobin via circulatory system to capillaries. In the capillaries, O2 is released from hemoglobin and enters cells by diffusion

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How does the CO2 get from the cell to the lungs

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Approx. 23% of CO2 combines with hemoglobin (carbaminohemoglobin) and CO2 produced by cell enter blood stream via diffusion (7% CO2 dissolved in plasma). The CO2 reacts with H2) to form bicarbonate and leaves blood by diffusion = 1 hemoglobin can only carry 1 CO2 molecule

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How much of O2 and CO2 transported by hemoglobin

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O2 98.5%, CO2 23%

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How much of O2 and CO2 get transported by getting dissolved in plasma

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O2 1.5% CO2 7%

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How much of O2 and CO2 transport as bicarbonate

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O2 N/A, CO2 70%

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Euponoea

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Normal breathing

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Dyspnoea

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Difficult breathing (asthma, bronchitis, emphysema)

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Tachypnoea

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Fast breathing (anxiety, fever in children)

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Hyperpnoea

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Deep breathing (exercise, high altitudes)

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Aponea

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Lack of breathing (drugs, trauma)

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Hyperventilation

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Increased rate or depth of breathing

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Causes of hyperventilation (2)

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  • Respiratory causes: Asthma, emphysema
  • Non respiratory causes: Exercise, fever, hyperthyroidism, anxiety (all increased metabolism)
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Consequences of hyperventilation (2)

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  • Hypocapnia (decrease CO2 levels) = alkalosis (increase pH level) = brain dysfunction such as tingling, unconsciousness
  • Hypocapnia (decrease CO2 levels = vasodilation = hypotension (lower bp)
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Hypoxia

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Reduced oxygen supply to body tissues

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Internal causes of hypoxia (functional deficit in body systems) (7):

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  • Hemoglobin deficiencies: Anemia, carbon monoxide poisoning
  • Arterial obstruction
  • Hypotension
  • Edema: Congestive heart failure, renal failure
  • Congenital defects: Septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus
  • Obstruction of airways: Asthma, bronchitis
  • Diffusion deficiency in lungs: Emphysema, pneumonia, pulmonary edema
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External causes of hypoxia (low oxygen levels in environment) (3)

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  • High altitudes
  • Overcrowded rooms
  • Diving
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Physiological consequences of hypoxia (3):

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  • Cyanosis
  • Tachycardia
  • Dizziness
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Cyanosis

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Blueish skin color due to accumulation of non oxygenated blood

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Tachycardia

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Autonomic nervous system mediated increase in heart rate

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Dizziness

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Caused by insufficient oxygen supply to brain

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