Respiratory System Crossword by Dakota Smith

Edit Answers
12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637
Across
  1. 2. The prominent structure between the eyes that serves as the entrance to the respiratory tract and contains the olfactory organ
  2. 5. The two large tubes that carry air from your windpipe to your lungs
  3. 8. Thin skeletal muscle that is the major muscle of respiration
  4. 9. Back portion of the palate(muscular)
  5. 10. The windpipe
  6. 14. Respiratory disease found mostly in smokers that gets progressively worse
  7. 17. The action of breathing
  8. 19. Difficult or labored breathing
  9. 21. Roof of the mouth
  10. 22. Pair of organs in the chest that supply the body with oxygen and remove carbon dioxide
  11. 23. Flap of cartilage at the root of the tongue, which is depressed during swallowing to cover the opening of the wind pipe
  12. 26. Any of the tiny air sacs of the lungs which allow for rapid gaseous exchange
  13. 27. The cartilage and bone inside your nose that divides the nasal cavity
  14. 28. Condition where apparently healthy infants stop breathing and die in their sleep
  15. 31. When the walls of some alveoli are destroyed, causing the remaining alveoli to become enlarged
  16. 34. The process of diffusing oxygen from the blood, into the interstitial fluid and into the cells
  17. 36. The area of the throat containing the vocal cords and used for breathing, swallowing, and talking
  18. 37. The part of the larynx consisting of the vocal cords and the opening between them
Down
  1. 1. Condition that causes hypoxia during sleep
  2. 3. The formal term for gas exchange
  3. 4. The total amount of exchangeable air
  4. 6. Front portion of the palate(bony)
  5. 7. Amount of air that can be forcibly inhaled
  6. 11. Respiratory pattern
  7. 12. Either of two external openings of the nasal cavity in vertebrates
  8. 13. The amount of air that moves in and out of the lungs with each respiratory cycle
  9. 14. Long, narrow, curled shelf of bone that protrudes into the breathing passage of the nose in humans and various animals
  10. 15. Causes oversecretion of a thick mucus that clogs the respiratory passages
  11. 16. when the tonsils become red, swollen, and sore, congested with bacteria
  12. 18. Either of two small masses of lymphoid tissue in the throat
  13. 20. The amount of air that can be forcibly exhaled behind tidal expiration
  14. 24. Dyspnea within a few hours after birth
  15. 25. Process of air flowing into the lungs during inhalation and out during exhalation
  16. 29. Air in the lungs that cannot be voluntarily exhaled
  17. 30. Caused by chronically inflamed, hypersensitive bronchial passages
  18. 32. Any of the minute branches into which a bronchus divides
  19. 33. Sinus inflammation
  20. 35. Hollow, muscular funnel-shaped passageway that connects the mouth and nose to the esophagus and larynx