VPAT 3100H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bronchus, Abdominal Cavity, Soft Palate
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Lower respiratory tract: bronchus, pleural form of bronchus: is bronchi, the trachea is the main bronchus. Pneumo or pulmonary: mucociliary apparatus: how you get rid of junk in your lungs (mechanism for pushing stuff out, noun: mucus, adjective: mucos, a mucous membrane contains mucus, cilia, singular: cilium. Picture of dog: fancy word for chest: thoracic cavity or pleural cavity, inflammation of the chest: pleuritis, diaphgram: fences in the pleural cavity from the abdominal cavity, medial stinum: middle of the thoracic cavity. Coelom: birds have air sacs (4 cycle respiration, inhale trachea lungs air sacs exhale, specialized structures, air sacs, pneumatic bones aka air sacs that extend into the bones, syrinx: vocal box. Thump on the thorax (should be hollow: epistaxis: nose bleed, vs. hemoptysis: coughing up blood, use robitussin (cough medicine, protusis causes whooping cough. Palatoschisis: cleft palette (common in cows: history of catholic church, great schism: means to split, cleave (catholic church splits, septa, septum is a wall.