Exam 5: Pulmonary
1. Both carbon dioxide and oxygen are able to bind with hemoglobin.
1. True
b. Hypoventilation is associated with decreased PCO2.
1. False
b. The breathing rate is determined by input from ______ that monitor oxygen, carbon
dioxide, and pH levels in the blood.
1. Chemorecep...
1. Both carbon dioxide and oxygen are able to bind with hemoglobin.
1. True
b. Hypoventilation is associated with decreased PCO2.
1. False
b. The breathing rate is determined by input from that monitor oxygen, carbon
dioxide, and pH levels in the blood.
1. Chemoreceptors
b. Lung is the term used to describe the ease or difficulty with which the lungs can
be inflated.
1. Compliance
b. During expiration, air moves out of the lungs as the chest muscles relax and the chest
cavity becomes smaller.
1. True
b. Intrapleural pressure is always negative in relation to alveolar pressure in a normal
inflated lung.
1. True
b. Intrathoracic pressure is always greater than intrapleural pressure.
1. False
b. Collagen fibers make lung inflation easier.
1. False
b. Lung volumes can be measured using a .
1. Spirometer
b. is the flow of blood in the adjacent pulmonary capillaries.
1. Perfusion
b. Asthma is characterized by each of the following except:
1. Loss of elastic lung fibers
2. Airway obstruction
3. Bronchial hyperresponsiveness
4. Airway inflammation
b. Each of the following are TRUE of emphysema except:
1. Alveoli have decreased elastic recoil
2. Hyperinflation and air trapping
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