HCB TEST 4 Exam Questions and
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Apnea - ✔✔No breathing
Cyanosis - ✔✔Bluish color of skin due to insufficent oxygen levels
Diffusion - ✔✔Molocules move from areas of high concentration to low
concentration
Dyspnea - ✔✔difficulty breathing
Hypoxia - ✔✔deficiency in the amount of oxygen reaching the tissues
Respiratory distress - ✔✔Increased work of breathing
Respiratory failure - ✔✔Reduction of breathing not sufficent to support life
Retractions - ✔✔Pulling in the skin and soft tissue between the ribs when
breathing
oropharynx - ✔✔area of the throat that is located between the mouth and
nasopharynx
nasopharynx - ✔✔the area directly posterior to the nose
Pharynx includes both - ✔✔Oropharnyx and nasopharnyx
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Epiglottis - ✔✔Closes over the glottis to prevent food and foregin objects
from entering the trachea
Larynx - ✔✔(Voice box) contains vocal cords
thyroid cartilage - ✔✔Adam's apple
cricoid cartilage - ✔✔Forms the lower part of the larynx
Bronchial tree - ✔✔Consists of trachea, primary bronchi, secondary
bronchi, tertiary bronchi, bronchioles, terminal bronchioles
Alveoli - ✔✔Where gas exchange takes place
Diaphragm - ✔✔Divides the chest cavity for abdominal cavity and helps
person inhale and exhale
Inhalation - ✔✔Active process that creates negative pressure (uses
muscles to breath)
Exhalation - ✔✔Passive process that creates positive pressure
Breathing - ✔✔Adequate (life sustaining); inadequate (non-life sustaining)
Chemoreceptors - ✔✔Detect increasing levels of carbon dioxide as well as
low levels of oxygen
When a patient has a challenge of breathing but is compensating.... -
✔✔Respiratory distress