Across
- 4. Tube-like structure which connects nasal and oral cavities to the larynx
- 7. type of alveolar cells
- 8. Excessive inflation of the air spaces distal to the terminal bronchioles, alveolar ducts and alveoli
- 9. Actual blood flow through the pulmonary circulation
- 10. also known as windpipe
- 12. measures the amount of oxygen being carried by RBC
- 13. primary cause of COPD
- 15. Enlarged RBC's
- 18. cannot be measured by spirometer
- 20. occur in other body parts
- 23. amount of air exhaled after maximal inspiration
- 24. Procedure done prior to ABG
- 25. movement of air in and out of the lungs
Down
- 1. effects of anesthesia and restricted breathing with pain
- 2. anti inflammatory agent
- 3. needle puncture through the chest wall
- 5. maximum amount of air that can be inhaled after a relax expiration
- 6. process of gas exchage
- 11. Amount of air that can be inspired or expired after a normal respiratory cycle
- 14. communicable disease that commonly attacks the lungs, although
- 16. Removal of a lobe of a lung
- 17. Removal or stripping of thick, fibrous, membrane from visceral pleura
- 19. covers opening to the larynx during swallowing
- 21. A complex inflammatory process that increases airway resistance
- 22. Primary site of gas exchange