Respiratory System — Flashcards

The normal value of physiological shunt is _____%

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

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.

Which metabolic poison stimulates peripheral chemoreceptors?

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

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 _____.

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

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