Respiratory Anatomy Cross: Respiratory Zone
Across
3. Secret surfactant
7. Superior tip of the lungs
13. Maintain sterile alveolar surfaces
14. Connect the alveoli together and equalize the air pressure
15. Consist of smooth muscle, connective tissue and out pocketing alveoli
16. Where bronchi enter the lungs
17. air sacs where gas exchange occurs
18. Gas Exchange
19. a fluid that prevents the alveoli from collapsing
Down
1. Alveolar-capillary membrane is the actually air-blood membrane
2. Left lung indention that accommodates the heart
4. Thin epithelial tissue that make up the alveoli
5. Branch off of terminal bronchioles
6. Cover the outside surface of the alveoli
8. 2 paired respiratory organs
9. A bunch of alveoli similar to a bunch of grapes
10. Inferior surface of lungs
11. Attachments that suspend the lungs.
12. continuously curving surface of the lungs