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32 Cards in this Set
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Gas Exchange
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cells need oxygen - waste product carbon dioxide - breath out
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Alveoli
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Terminal end of respiratory system - small air sacs
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Bronchi
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Series of branching airways & tubes
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Alveolar Capillary Membrane
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Connects respiratory & circulatory systems - gas exchange takes place here
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Septum
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Seperates right & left nasal cavities
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Upper Respiratory
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Septum
Olfaction Sinuses Pharynx Larynx Epiglottis |
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Olfaction
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Sense of smell - upper respiratory function
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Sinuses
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Hollow / air filled cavities in the skull
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Pharynx
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Throat
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Epiglottis
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Leaf shaped flap - closes over opening to larynx when you swallow
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Visceral Pleura
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Membrane around the lungs - protection
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Parietal Pleura
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Membrane around thoracic cavity & upper diaphragm
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Bony Thorax
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Protects lungs, heart, and great vessels
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Sternum
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Breast bone - landmark for CPR
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Diaphragm
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Dome shaped breathing muscle
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Lymph Nodes
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Filter blood, remove damaged cells, destroy pathogens
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Spleen
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Lymph organ that destroy & removes old / damaged RBC's
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Thymus
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Lymph organ that produces lymphocytes - sometomes disappears in adulthood
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Antigens
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Molecules on outer surface of cell membrane to determine friend or foe
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Antibodies
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Weapons to destroy foreign antigens
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B-cells
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Release antibodies to foreign antigens - remember past infections
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Natural Killer Cells
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Chemically kills cells with foreign antigens
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Natural Active Immunity
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Permanent - acquired in the course of daily life - chicken pox, cold, infection - contact with pathogen
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Natural Passive Immunity
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Tempoary - passed through placenta & breastfeeding
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Artifical Active Immunity
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Permanent - immunizations
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Artifical Passive Immunity
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Temporary - injection of immune serum
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Atelectasis
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Collapse of lung tissue affecting part or all of one lung. Resulting from obstruction, inactivity, failure to breath deep - post op.
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Hemoptysis
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Coughing up blood or bloody sputum from the lungs or airway. Primary importance is to find source of bleeding.
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Hemothorax
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Accumulation of blood in the plural cavity that can be life threatening.
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Pneumothorax
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A collection of air or gas in the pleural cavity, resulting in a collapsed lung.
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Bronchiectasis
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Permanent, irreversible dialation of the bronchi, from destruction of muscular bronchi wall.
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Flail Chest
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A double fracture of three or more sdjacent ribs resulting in instability.
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