L7A: Respiratory system (anatomy of the lungs)
Cards (64)
- What is internal respiration?
- What is external respiration?
- What are the key functions of respiration?
- What is the conducting zone responsible for?
- What is the respiratory zone's function?
- What are the components of the conduction airways?
- What is the role of conducting airways?
- How does air get conditioned in the conducting airways?
- What is the function of mucus and cilia in the conducting airways?
- What is the structural characteristic of conducting airways?
- What type of epithelium lines the conducting system?
- What do goblet cells secrete?
- What is the function of cilia in the conducting airways?
- What do serous glands secrete?
- What is the role of the nasal cavity?
- What do the three conchae bones provide?
- What is the function of the oropharynx?
- What connects the oropharynx to the trachea?
- What is the role of the larynx?
- What connects the larynx to the lungs?
- What is the function of the trachea?
- What structural feature does the trachea have?
- How does the trachea maintain its structure?
- What allows coughing in the trachea?
- What do the primary bronchi branch into?
- How many secondary bronchi does the right primary bronchus split into?
- How many secondary bronchi does the left primary bronchus split into?
- What do secondary bronchi divide into?
- What do tertiary bronchi become?
- What do terminal bronchioles branch into?
- Where does gas exchange occur in the lungs?
- What are lobules made of?
- Where does gas exchange take place?
- How many alveoli are in an adult?
- What is the function of the respiratory membrane?
- What allows efficient gas exchange in alveoli?
- What type of cells are Type 1 alveolar cells?
- What do Type 2 alveolar cells secrete?
- What is the role of macrophages in alveoli?
- What is the function of alveolar surfactant?