A respiratory pattern characterized by very slow, shallow and infrequent breathing is known as __________.

Your patient is breathing 38 times a minute and has a average tidal volume of 250.  What is the patient’s minute ventilation in mL’s?

The right and left primary bronchi are branches of the _____________?

_____________ decreases the surface tension of the tissue fluid and permits inflation of the alveoli.

Exhaled air is approximately ___________ % oxygen and ____________ % CO2.

The following structures are part of the lower airway except:

With respect to normal inhalation, number these events in proper sequence.

Match each part of the larynx with it proper description.

Within the alveoli, surface tension is decreased and inflation is possible because of the presence of:

Alveolar ventilation is the volume of air in each inhalation that reaches the _________ and participates in __________.