Vocabulary
- Respiratory: pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory system.
- System: A functionally related group of elements, especially:a. The human body regarded as a functional physiological unit.
- Airways: an air route equipped with emergency landing fields, beaconlights, radio beams, etc.
- Lungs: either of the two saclike respiratory organs in the thorax ofhumans and the higher vertebrates.
- Respiratory muscles: the skeletal muscles that increase and decrease the volume of the thorax during respiration.
- Oxygen: a colorless, odorless, gaseous element constituting about one-fifth ofthe volume of the atmosphere and present in a combined state innature.
- Carbon dioxide: a colorless, odorless, incombustible gas, CO 2 , present in theatmosphere and formed during respiration, usually obtained from coal,coke, or natural gas by combustion.
- Alveolar: Phonetics . articulated with the tongue touching or close to thealveolar ridge, as English t, d, n; gingival.
- Anatomical: of or pertaining to anatomy.
- Stomata: Also, stomate. Botany . any of various small apertures,especially one of the minute orifices or slits in the epidermis ofleaves, stems, etc., through which gases are exchanged.
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