The Respiratory System
Vocabulary that relates to animal respiratory system.
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- pharynx
- common passageway for food and air, but not at the same time
- nasal cavity
- connected to the mouth by a hard and soft palate
- alveoli
- smallest bronchioles, exhausts carbon dioxide
- bronchi
- two tubes from trachea, each side enters a lung
- larynx
- voice box, controls breathing, keeps objects out of lungs
- nostrils
- exterhal openings, also known as nares
- bronchioles
- small tubes from the bronchi
- epiglottis
- a valve-like structure that shuts when swa
- lungs
- spongy organ that expands when filled with air
- diaphragm
- sheet of muscle under the lungs, separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity
- trachea
- wind pipe, consists of cartilage rings, similar to a vacuum cleaner hose