RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

Match each column. Upper respiratory tract. Lower respiratory tract.

Also know or breathing, is the exchange of oxygen for carbon dioxyde that is essential to life.

is the act of taking in air as the diaphragm contracts and pulls downward.

is the act of breathing out, as the diaphragm relaxes, it moves upward.

is the act of breathing air in and out of the lungs form the outside environmet and, in the process, exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide.

Also know as cellular respiration, is the exchange of gases within the cells of the blood and tissues (oxygen pass from the bloodstream into the cells).

is a physician with specialized training in the diagnosis and treatment of disease of the head and neck (called as ENT).

is a physician who specializes in diagnosis and treating disease and disorders of the respiratory system.

is a licensed medical professional who specializes in treating patients who are having difficulty breathing, both in hospital and outpatient setting.

Is a group of lung diseases in which the bronchial airflow is obstructed, making it difficult to breathe out.

is disease in which the airways have becomes inflamed due to recurrent exposure to an inhaled irritant, usually cigarette smoke.

is the progressive, long-term loss of lung function, usually due to smoking; characteryzed by a decrease in the total number of alveoli, enlargement of the remaining alveoli and progressive destruction of the wall of these remaining alveoli.

is a chronic inflammatory disease of the bronchial tubes. often triggered by andd allergic reaction.