Respiratory System Terms
Across
- 2. air filled within the lungs where all gas exchanges between air and blood occur
- 4. connects nasal cavitiy to nasopharynx always open, nasal part (upper most) of pharynx
- 8. connects nose and mouth to lungs, tube like
- 9. the nostrils
- 15. nasal cavity, sinuses pharynx. Filter warm and humid air
- 17. air passageway
- 18. forms the floor of the nasal cavitiy and seperates it from the oral cavitiy
Down
- 1. the presence of air or gas in a pleural cavity
- 3. larynx, trachea, bronchi, alveoli, bronchioles
- 5. open into the nasal cavitiy
- 6. supply oxygen to blood, where oxygen is sent too
- 7. "voice box"; in the neck and makes speech
- 10. skeletal muscle that extends across the bottom of the rib cage; seperates thoracic from abdominal cavity
- 11. extends between the internal nares and entrances to the larynx
- 12. tongue, contains taste buds
- 13. extends posterior to hard palate. marks boundary between the superior nasal pharynx and rest of pharynx
- 14. first passageway air passes through; in nose
- 16. covering that protects and cushions the lungs