Respiratory System Part I
Across
- 5. Also called the windpipe.
- 7. The only site of gas exchange.
- 8. Occupy the entire thoracic cavity.
- 10. Commonly called the Adam's apple.
- 13. Sinus inflammation.
- 14. The process of pulmonary ventilation.
- 15. Lay in the skull and act as resonance chambers for speech and produce mucus.
- 20. Routes air and food into the proper channels and plays a role in speech.
- 22. The passageways from the trachea to the alveoli.
- 23. The pharyngotympanic tubes, which drain the _____ ears, open into the nasopharynx
- 25. Midline of the nasal cavity.
Down
- 1. The passageways from the nose to the larynx.
- 2. Supplies the body with oxygen and disposes of carbon dioxide.
- 3. Interior of the nose.
- 4. Terminal air sacks.
- 6. A common passageway for food and air.
- 9. Genetic defect funds the failure of the bones forming the palette to fuse medially.
- 11. Triggered when anything other than air enters the larynx.
- 12. When the pharyngeal tonsil becomes inflamed.
- 16. The ______ of each lung is covered with its own visceral serosa.
- 17. Mucous–covered projections or lobes.
- 18. The pharynx has _____ regions.
- 19. Only externally visible part of the respiratory system.
- 21. Inflammation of the nasal mucosa.
- 24. Separate the nasal cavity from the oral cavity.