ALHS 1011 CHAPTER 13 - RESPIRATORY COMBINED QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026

ALHS 1011 CHAPTER 13 - RESPIRATORY COMBINED QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026 tidal volume - Answers amount of air that moves in and out of the lungs during a normal breath expiration - Answers the act of expelling air from the lungs inspiration - Answers the act of inhaling air into the lungs inspiratory reserved volume - Answers an amount of air that can be forcefully inhaled after normal inhalation expiratory reserve volume - Answers An amount of air that can be exhaled from the lungs after normal expiration residual volume - Answers Amount left in the lungs after forceful exhalation vital capacity - Answers Total amount of exchangeable air dead space volume - Answers Air in the conducting passageways that doesn't reach the lungs spirometer - Answers an instrument for measuring the lung capacities/volumes oxyhemoglobin - Answers the bright red hemoglobin that is a combination of hemoglobin and oxygen from the lungs bicarbonate ion - Answers primary form that CO2 is carried in the blood hypoxia - Answers a condition in which there is inadequare oxygen available to the tissues phrenic nerves - Answers stimulates the diaphragm and cause it to contract eupnea - Answers normal relaxed breathing hypernea - Answers increased depth of breathing hyperventilation - Answers an increased depth and rate of breathing causing excessive CO2 to be exhaled apnea - Answers absence of breathing cyanosis - Answers bluish color of the skin, nail beds, and/or lips due to an insufficient amount of oxygen in the blood bronchitis - Answers inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchial tubes emphysema - Answers disease in which the tissues of the lungs lose elasticity, making breathing difficult surfactant - Answers reduces surface tension on the inside of the alveolar walls, preventing them from collapsing upon exhalation dyspnea - Answers difficulty breathing tachypnea - Answers rapid breathing cheyne-stokes respiraiton - Answers abnormal breating characterized by period of apnea nose - Answers the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract nares - Answers openings through the nose carrying air into the nasal cavities conchae - Answers fleshy lobes in the nasal cavity which increase its surface area palate - Answers the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities paranasal sinuses - Answers located in the sphenoid, ethmoid, maxillary, and frontal bones, they surround the nasal cavity and make the skull lighter; they also serve as resonance chambers for speech pharynx - Answers muscular tube extending from the posterior nasal cavity to the esophagus tonsils - Answers lymphatic tissues on each side of the pharynx that filter air to protect the body from bacterial invasion larynx - Answers a cartilaginous structure located beteen the pharynx and trachea; the voice box epiglottis - Answers a flap of cartilage that covers the windpipe while swallowing vocal folds - Answers True vocal cords vocal cords - Answers folds of tissue within larynx that vibrate and produce sounds glottis - Answers the openings beteen the vocal cords in the larynx esophagus - Answers the passage between the pharynx and the stomach bronchi - Answers The passages that branch from the trachea and direct air into the lungs bronchioles - Answers smallest branches of the bronchi lung - Answers primary organs of breathing and respiration mediastinum - Answers the part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that contains the heart and aorta and esophagus and trachea apex - Answers superior portion of the lungs base - Answers area of the lung resting on the diaphragm pulmonary pleura - Answers serosa covering each lung parietal pleura - Answers pleura that lines the walls of the chest cavity alveoli - Answers tiny sacs of lung tissue specialized for the movement of gases between air and blood respiratory membrane - Answers where gas exchange occurs between the air on the alveolar side and the blood on the capillary side; the alveolar and capillary walls form the respiratory membrane pulmonary ventilation - Answers Movement of air into and out of the lungs external respiration - Answers exchange of gasses between the alveoli and the blood