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By what mechanism does gas exchange across the lung occur? ✔Correct Answer-Simple diffusion
What is the name given to the action produced by the forward stroking of millions of cilia?
✔Correct Answer-Mucociliary escalator
What is the most common cell type found in the mucosa of the larger airways? ✔Correct Answer-
Pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelium
What is normal amount of anatomic dead space found in a healthy lung? ✔Correct Answer-2 ml/kg
predicted body weight
What is the primary purpose of the respiratory system? ✔Correct Answer-Continuous absorption
of oxygen and excretion of carbon dioxide
Describe a normal right side adult lung? ✔Correct Answer-The right lung has three lobes and two
fissures.
Pressures in the pulmonary circulation are lower than those in the systemic circulation because of
what characteristic of the pulmonary circulation? ✔Correct Answer-Lower resistance than the
systemic circulation
What is the common name given to classify the airway from the nares to the terminal bronchioles?
✔Correct Answer-Conducting airways
What is the primary mechanism that stops the lungs from collapsing at the end of exhalation?
✔Correct Answer-There is an equal opposing tendency of the chest wall to expand.
What will most commonly blunt the costophrenic angle as seen on chest radiograph in an upright
individual? ✔Correct Answer-Excess fluids
Define: Quantitative ✔Correct Answer-Something you can measure
Define: Qualitative ✔Correct Answer-Something that can be classified
Define discrete ✔Correct Answer-Variables that can vary only by fixed amounts.
Define: Nominal ✔Correct Answer-Data that is grouped by not put in any particular order.
Define: Ordinal ✔Correct Answer-Data can be place in an order.
The smaller the standard deviation is means the results are ✔Correct Answer-More reliable
The concept that refers to the effects of variable other than those considered is ✔Correct Answer-
Bias