L1 RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

• Bronchial tubes


  is responsible from getting Oxygen from the atmosphere and bringing it to our lungs.
• Respiratory System


  System responsible for supplying Oxygen to the body and removing Carbon Dioxide
• filters particles, warms and moisten the air


  3 functions of the nose
• Asphyxia


  a condition arising when the body is deprived of oxygen, causing unconsciousness or death ; suffocation
• epiglottis


  a flap of cartilage at the root of tongue, which is depressed during swallowing to cover the opening of the windpipe.
• larynx


  the hollow muscular organ forming an air passage to the lungs and holding the vocal cords
• trachea


  tube in your throat that carries air to your lungs (windpipe)
• bronchus


  an airway in the respiratory tract that conducts air into the lungs.
• when you breathe in, the diaphragm moves downward causing the lungs to expand.
• when you breathe out, the diaphragm moves upward and causing lungs to contract.
• alveoli


  the functional respiratory units in the lung where gases are exchanged.
• pharynx


  leads to the trachea
• cilia


  filters air