Respiratory System — Flashcards

Time taken by a red cell is about _____ seconds to traverse the pulmonary capillaries at rest

Preoxygenation is the process of replacing _____ in the lungs with oxygen.

A deep breath _____ the secretion of surfactant by stretching the type II cells.

The normal value of physiological shunt is _____%

The upper limit for the linear relationship between the increase in % of CO2 in inspired air and respiratory minute volume is _____% CO2.

Which metabolic poison stimulates peripheral chemoreceptors?

Approximately _____ mL of water is lost in expired air every 24 hours

If lung is allowed to undergo elastic recoil without the chest wall, the resultant volume of the lung would be _____.

The response of peripheral chemoreceptors to changes in Pco2 is _____ than that of central chemoreceptors

Complete sheet of mucus is cleared into the pharynx every _____ min.