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What is total volume?
This is the total volume of the lungs.
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What is Boyles law?
According to this law pressure and volume are inversely related.
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What is dead space?
This is the space where respiration does not take place in the respiratory system.
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What is bound to the hemoglobin?
This is the most common way oxygen is moved in the body.
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What is an organ?
This is a structure made of multiple tissues.
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What is tidal volume?
This is the amount of air that moves in and out with a normal breath.
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What is Dalton’s law?
According to this law the total pressure is equal to the sum of all the partial pressures.
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What is alveolar dead space?
This is dead space due to blockage or damage of the alveoli.
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What is dissolved to hemoglobin?
What is the lesser common way for oxygen to be transported in blood.
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What is the lungs and the heart.
The pulmonary circuit takes blood between these organs.
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What is expiratory reserve?
This is the total volume of air you can exhale.
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What is Henrys law?
According to this law the three factors that determine the amount of gas in a liquid are solubility, partial pressure, and temperature.
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What is anatomical dead space?
This is dead space built into the respiratory system.
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What is dissolved in plasma
This is the most common way that CO2 is transported in blood.
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What is an artery?
These muscle tubes carry blood away from the heart.
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What is inspiratory reserve?
This is the total volume of air you can inhale.
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What is into the lungs.
When you decrease the pressure in the lungs air will flow in this direction.
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What is anatomical dead space?
The trachea is an example of this.
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What is carboxyhemoglobin
This is the name of hemoglobin with CO bound to it.
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What is the SA node?
This is the first part of the intrinsic conducting system.
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What is residual volume?
This is the amount of air left in the lungs after maximum exhalation.
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What is into the capillaries?
As the partial pressure of CO2 in the blood decreases in the muscles CO2 will flow here.
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What is Alveolar dead space?
Pneumonia is an example of an illness that would cause this type of dead space.
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What is Carbaminohemoglobin?
This is the name of hemoglobin with CO2 bound to it.
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What is Autorythmic cells?
These cells are also known as pace maker cells.
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