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Respiratory System
The respiratory system includes the lungs and the airway. The questions in this category focus mainly on the anatomical and physiological processes associated with breathing.
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What do the organs of the respiratory do to help the body?
The organs in the repiratory system, help you breathe. When the oxygen is in the body, the heart pumps it around to help the blood.
What does the alveoli do when you breathe out?
It gives off the Co2 which is produced in the blood vessels covering the alveoli
What is the significance of thick tan sputum with a bad cough?
Your respiratory system is not working correctly. You should make an appointment to see a lung doctor.
What name the process by which carbon dioxide moves from blood to air?
Simple diffusion: movent from a high concentration to a low.
Exhalation describes the state when the diaphragm relaxes and intrapulmonic and intrathoracic pressure increases.
closed circulatory system
What is the name and function of one Respiratory system?
the lungs. in the lungs there is are cool little things called bronchioles and in these bronchioles there are many hundreds of smaller things called alveoli.
What is the correct order for the following cellsmoleculesatomsorganellestissuesand systems?
Atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, organelles, systems
What microscopic respiratory structure where gases are exchanged?
This exchange of gases does not depend how "hard" you breathe but operates on the principle of Diffusion
What is the most common application of Bernoulli and aposs principle in Respiratory Care?
Air injector
Three major characteristics of the respiratory system?
1)Breathing
2) Transport of O2 from the lungs to the rest of the body; transport of CO2 from the tissues back to the lungs
3) O2 diffuses from Red Blood Cells into body cells; CO2 moves into the blood
Which process is more efficient aerobic or anaerobic respiration?
Aerobic because it doesn't require Oxygen to make unlike anaerobic respiration. Thus making it far more efficient even though it causes cramps.
What is the function of the laryngopharynx?
The laryngopharynx, which is the third division, is also shared by both the respiratory and digestive system. Air, food, and fluids continue downward to the opening of the esophagus and trachea where air enters the trachea and food and fluids flow into the esophagus.
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What respiratory disease that can pass hereditarily?
cystic fibrosis: although CF is not specifically a respiratory disease it does dramatically affect the lungs causing an early death. there are a couple of other genetic ones (for instance alpha 1 antitrysin) but they are much rarer in occurence than CF
DO the pulmonary circulation directly serve the metabolic needs of body tissues?
The pulmonary circulation system does not serve the metabolic needs of the body tissues directly, but only the lungs.
What does much part function in respiratory system?
Your question is unclear. Are you asking what does the most in the respiratory system , then tiny little sacs called the alveoli do.
If you breathe a little asbestos can it be harmful?
Because asbestos causes cancer, there is not thought to be a threshold, a level below which exposure does not increase your risk of disease. As a practical matter, however, there are short, low exposures that do not increase your risk significantly over what it was already as a result of living in a mechanized society or living in a region where asbestos occurs naturally in undisturbed rock outcroppings.
So, while you should do what you can to avoid breathing any asbestos, there may be small quantities that involve no significant additional risk.
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Which tissue maintains open airways in the lower respiratory system?
hyaline cartilage
Do respiratory therapist get vacation days?
Definately. Just like nurses and other health care professionals.
When a person breathes out what important substance leaves the body?
carbondioxide leaves your body when you breathe out.
the respiratory system helps move these substances into and out of your body.
