PowerPoint Lecture Outlines
to accompany
Hole’s Human
Anatomy and Physiology
Eleventh Edition
Shier w Butler w Lewis
Chapter
19
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Chapter 19
Respiratory System
Respiration is the process of exchanging gases between the
atmosphere and body cells. Consists of the following
events:
• ventilation
• external respiration
• transport
• internal respiration
• cellular respiration
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Organs of the
Respiratory System
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Organs of the
Respiratory System
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Upper Respiratory Tract
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Mucous in Respiratory Tract
Cilia move mucus and trapped particles from the nasal cavity
to the pharynx
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Sinuses
Air-filled spaces in maxillary, frontal, ethmoid, and
sphenoid bones
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Pharynx
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Larynx
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Vocal Cords
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Trachea
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Tracheostomy
Performed to allow air to bypass an obstruction
within the larynx
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Bronchial Tree
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Alveoli
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Diffusion Across Respiratory
Membrane
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Lungs
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Transverse Section of Lungs
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Breathing Mechanism
• Breathing or ventilation is the movement of air
from outside the body into the bronchial tree and
alveoli
• air movements of inspiration and expiration
• changes in the size of the thoracic cavity due
to changes in pressure
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Inspiration
• Moving the
plunger of a syringe
causes air to move in
or out
• Air movements in
and out of the lungs
occur in much the
same way
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Lungs at Rest
When lungs are at rest, the pressure on the inside of the
lungs is equal to the pressure on the outside of the thorax
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Inspiration
• Intra-alveolar
pressure decreases to
about 758mm Hg as
the thoracic cavity
enlarges
• Atmospheric
pressure forces air
into the airways
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Inspiration
Shape of thorax at end
of normal inspiration
Shape of thorax at end of maximal
inspiration aided by contraction of
sternocleidomastoid and pectoralis minor
muscles
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Major Events in Inspiration
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Expiration
• due to elastic recoil of the lung tissues and abdominal organs
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Maximal Expiration
• contraction of
abdominal wall
muscles
• contraction of
posterior internal
intercostal muscles
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Major Events in Expiration
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Respiratory Volumes and
Capacities
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Respiratory Volumes and
Capacities
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Alveolar Ventilation
minute ventilation
• tidal volume
multiplied by
breathing rate
• amount of air that is
moved into the
respiratory
passageways
alveolar ventilation rate
• major factor affecting
concentrations of oxygen
and carbon dioxide in the
alveoli
• volume of air that
reaches alveoli
• tidal volume minus
physiologic dead space
then multiplied by
breathing rate
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Nonrespiratory Air Movements
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Respiratory Center
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Respiratory Center
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Factors Affecting Breathing
Decreased blood
oxygen concentration
stimulates peripheral
chemoreceptors in the
carotid and aortic
bodies
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Factors Affecting Breathing
• motor impulses travel from the
respiratory center to the
diaphragm and external
intercostal muscles
• contraction of these muscles
causes lungs to expand
• expansion stimulates stretch
receptors in the lungs
• inhibitory impulses from
receptors to respiratory center
prevent overinflation of lungs
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Factors Affecting Breathing
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Alveoli
• gas exchanges between the air and blood
occur within the alveoli
• alveolar pores allow air to pass from one
alveolus to another
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Respiratory Membrane
• consists of the walls of the alveolus and the capillary
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Diffusion Through
Respiratory Membrane
Gases are exchanged between alveolar air and capillary
blood because of differences in partial pressure
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Oxygen Transport
• Most oxygen binds to hemoglobin to form oxyhemoglobin
• Oxyhemoglobin releases oxygen in the regions of body cells
• Much oxygen is still bound to hemoglobin in the venous blood
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Oxygen Release
Amount of oxygen released from oxyhemoglobin increases as
• partial pressure of carbon dioxide increases
• the blood pH decreases
• blood temperature increases
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Carbon Dioxide Transport
• dissolved in plasma
• combined with hemoglobin
• in the form of bicarbonate ions
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Chloride Shift
• bicarbonate ions diffuse out RBCs
• chloride ions from plasma diffuse into RBCs
• electrical balance is maintained
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Carbon Dioxide in Lungs
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Gases Transported in Blood
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Life-Span Changes
• reflect accumulation of environmental influences
• reflect the effects of aging in other organ systems
• cilia less active
• mucous thickens
• swallowing, gagging, and coughing reflexes slow
• macrophages in lungs lose efficiency
• increased susceptibility to respiratory infections
• “barrel chest” may develop
• bronchial walls thin and collapse
• dead space increases
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Clinical Application
The Effects of Cigarette Smoking on the
Respiratory System
• cilia disappear
• excess mucus produced
• lung congestion increases lung
infections
• lining of bronchioles thicken
• bronchioles lose elasticity
• emphysema fifteen times more
common
• lung cancer more common
• much damage repaired when
smoking stops
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