Exam 28: The Respiratory System

The medical term for when a patient has difficulty breathing is ______.

What is the amount of air that remains in the lungs at all times called?

A pleural effusion that consists of air in the pleural cavity is also called a(n) ________.

The ____ is the total amount of air that the lungs can hold.

Normally, when blood levels of carbon dioxide rise, ____.

Letter K on the figure represents the ________, a muscle that contracts and relaxes to control the amount of space in the thoracic cavity.

Most of the carbon dioxide that enters the blood is converted to ________ by red blood cells.

Symptoms of atelectasis include dyspnea, ________ or excessive perspiration, anxiety, tachycardia, and intercostal muscle retraction.

Carbon monoxide gas is poisonous to humans and is particularly dangerous because it binds to the same receptor sites on hemoglobin as does ___________.

Inadequate oxygenation of the cells is called ________.

Which of these occurs when air leaves the lungs?

Which of these is not caused by cigarette smoking?

The respiratory symptoms of lung cancer include a cough that worsens over time and ______, or coughing up blood.

A pleural effusion may consist of blood in the pleural cavity, called a(n) ________.

Which of the following is the sum of tidal volume, inspiratory reserve volume, and expiratory reserve volume?

Which of the following lines the nasal cavity and helps remove pathogens?

The third cartilage of the larynx is called the ________ cartilage, which forms most of the posterior wall of the larynx and a small part of the anterior wall.

Letter I on the figure represents the ________, which branch off the tertiary bronchi within the lungs.

The ________ is the flap-like structure that closes off the larynx during swallowing so that food and liquids do not enter the respiratory system when swallowing occurs.

Most of the oxygen in the bloodstream binds to the heme portion of ________ in red blood cells.