Across
- 2. Exhalation of breath
- 4. tiny air sacs of the lungs
- 5. tiny hair-like structures on the surface of cells
- 11. the greatest volume of air that can be expelled from the lungs
- 12. A disease where the inner walls of the lungs' alveoli are damaged, causing them to eventually rupture
- 13. the body space between the thorax and pelvis
- 16. an infection in the lungs that causes the air sacs, or alveoli, of the lungs to fill up with fluid or pus
- 17. major air passages of the lungs
- 18. forming an air passage to the lungs and holding the vocal cord
- 21. a single breath
- 22. disease that affects your lungs that causes wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness
Down
- 1. what we breathe in
- 3. the volume of air remaining in the lungs after maximum forceful expiration
- 6. the drawing in of breath
- 7. extending from the larynx to the bronchial tubes and conveying air to and from the lungs
- 8. groups of muscles that run between the ribs, and help form and move the chest wall
- 9. the membrane-lined cavity behind the nose and mouth
- 10. human thoracic cage consisting of 12 pairs of these
- 14. muscular partition separating the thorax from the abdomen
- 15. what we breathe out
- 19. external openings of the nasal cavity
- 20. oxygen from the air that is inhaled is transferred into the blood