Trachea, main bronchi, lungs, lobar bronchus, lingular division bronchi
What is bronchi?
Two cartilage-ringed tubes near the center of the chest. This section of the respiratory system is lined with ciliated cells.
How do bronchial tubes form?
When bronchi enter the lungs and spread in a treelike fashion into smaller tubes
How do bronchioles form?
Bronchial tubes divide and further subdivide, and their walls become thinner and have progressively less cartilage that eventually become a tiny group of tubes
Gases can ___ and ___ between the lungs and the circulatory system
dissolve and diffuse
Oxygen diffuses alveolus into
Capillaries
Once in the capillaries
5% of the oxygen will be dissolved in the blood plasma
95% of the oxygen will bind to hemoglobin in red blood cells
Surfactant helps to ___ in the airways and this helps ___.
lower surface tension, keep the lung alveoli open.
Surface tension
This tension is determined by the thin liquid film that lines the outside of each alveolus
This film allows the alveolus to resist expansion also squeezes the alveolus producing recoil
A coating of pulmonary surfactant prevents the alveoli from collapsing from this surface tension
Insufficient pulmonary surfactant can produce newborn respiratory distress syndrome.