Respiratory Vocabulary

2. Sometimes referred to as your "voice box".
5. What diffuses into the blood via the alveoli.
6. Chronic respiratory disease. Causes inflammation in the bronchioles.
8. Amount of air we inhale or exhale in a normal breath
9. Infection which inflames the alveoli.
11. Contagious viral respiratory infection.
14. Main organs involved in breathing. We have one on the right and one on the left.
15. Tubes which carry air from the windpipe to the lungs.
18. Smallest airways of the respiratory system. They branch off the bronchi, and connect to alveoli.
19. Flap which covers the trachea during swallowing, so that food does not enter the lungs.

1. Large muscle located beneath the lungs. Contraction of this muscle allows the lungs to inflate.
3. Inflammation of the mucus membrane in the bronchi.
4. Bacterial infection which damages lung tissues.
7. Tube from the mouth to the lungs.
10. Forcing air out of the airways and lungs.
12. Tiny sacs of air at the end of a bronchiole. The site of gas exchange during respiration.
13. Protein which carries oxygen.
16. What we breath out as a waste product.
17. Pulling air into the airways and lungs.