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primary fx of respiratory system - ANSWER✔✔✔-provide o2 and
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remove co2 necessary to meet metabolic needs of entire body
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lungs receive how much of the CO from the RV? - ANSWER✔✔✔-100
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pulmonary structures receive blood from what circulation -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-systemic


the respiratory circulation is in parallel or series. why - ANSWER✔✔✔-
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parallel (less resistance), low pressure, low velocity
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the short distance between lungs and heart allows for - ANSWER✔✔✔-
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lower operating pressure
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lower operating pressure allows for the blood-gas barrier to be -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-thin without rupturing | |




functional unit of the respiratory system - ANSWER✔✔✔-alveoli
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,blood flow through pulmonary capillaries is - ANSWER✔✔✔-sheet flow
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Boyle's law - ANSWER✔✔✔-at a constant temp, the volume of a given
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mass of gas varies inversely to its pressure
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significance of Boyle's law - ANSWER✔✔✔-ventilation
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ventilation: inspiration - ANSWER✔✔✔-thoracic volume up, intrapulm
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pressure decreases (inspiration)
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Henry's law - ANSWER✔✔✔-amount of gas in solution varies directly
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with the partial pressure of gas over the solution
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Henry's law is effected by - ANSWER✔✔✔-solubility of gas, temp of
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liquid, partial pressure of gas
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henry's law assumptions - ANSWER✔✔✔-gas doesn't react with solVent
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gas doesn't bind to other molecules
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significance of Henry's law - ANSWER✔✔✔-dissolved gas in blood
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evolved gas disorders | |

,Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures - ANSWER✔✔✔-total pressure exerted
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is equal to the sum of partial pressures of individual gases
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dalton's law significance - ANSWER✔✔✔-pressure gradients
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the % of each gas in the atmosphere is ?? no matter the altitude -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-constant (pgas = pb x %gas) | | | | |




partial pressure of oxygen in the lungs is always less/greater than Po2 in
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the air - ANSWER✔✔✔-less
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fick's law of diffusion describes - ANSWER✔✔✔-diffusion of gas across a
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|membrane


fick's equation - ANSWER✔✔✔-volgas = a * S * deltaP /(sqrt mw x
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Thickness)


CO2 is more or less soluble that o2? diffusion? - ANSWER✔✔✔-24 x
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more co2 diffusion is 20x as rapid given same partial p difference
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effect if pneumonia on the movement of gases - ANSWER✔✔✔-
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decrease movement |

, conducting zone - ANSWER✔✔✔-move air between alveoli and
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external environment
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conditions air |




respiratory zone - ANSWER✔✔✔-gas exchange
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Pharynx - ANSWER✔✔✔-throat
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Larynx - ANSWER✔✔✔-voice box
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Trachea - ANSWER✔✔✔-Allows air to pass to and from lungs
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primary bronchi - ANSWER✔✔✔-The first branches of the trachea.
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There are two primary bronchi, one for each lung.
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terminal bronchioles - ANSWER✔✔✔-
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Alveoli - ANSWER✔✔✔-
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alveolar ducts - ANSWER✔✔✔-
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