Quizz

Cards (20)

  • What is internal respiration?
    Between blood & tissues
  • What is the easy way to say you have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
    COPD
  • Cancer cells break free and travel through body, what cancer is that?
    metastatic
  • What is external respiration?
    exchange of gases between alveolar air and blood cells
  • What protein on rbc's attache to O2?
    hemoglobin
  • inflammation of the larynx is called?
    laryngitis
  • Inflammation of the sinus?
    sinisits
  • Iron on protein hemoglobin that attracts O2 is?
    haemoglobin 
  • What does alveolar contain that lowers the surface tension of air?
    Surfactant
  • What is a diaphragm?
    muscle, makes up the floor of the thoracic cavity, pushes up on lungs to grab air
  • Where do you find alveolus?
    at the terminal end of the bronchial.
  • strep throat is caused by what?
    Streptococcus pyogenes
  • lungs filled with fluid, what will it bring?
    pneumonia
  • Where is the epiglottis found?
    Larynx
  • Why do we get a runny nose when we cry?
    lacrymal gland drain into nasal passage
  • what does the larynx house?
    voicebox, vocal cords
  • What is it called when air is pushed out of the lungs by the diaphragm?
    expiration
  • what makes the trachea structure so tough?
    cartilage, hyaline
  • medulla oblongata?
    respiratory center
  • air moving in and out of the lungs is?
    respiration