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Chapter 50: Respiration


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Chapter 50: Respiration

p. 973: respiration

p. 974: Fick's law of diffusion, papulae (singular, papula)

p. 975: water current, barometer, barometric pressure, one atmosphere, partial pressure

p. 976: gills, external gills, neotenic, axolotl, branchial chambers, mantle cavity, buccal cavity, opercular cavities, operculum (plural, opercula), ram ventilation, remora, gill arches, gill filaments, lamellae (singular, lamella), countercurrent flow

p. 977: concurrent flow

p. 978: tracheae (singular, trachea), lung, ventilation

p. 979: pharynx, glottis, positive pressure breathing, negative pressure breathing, cutaneous respiration

p. 980: larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli (singular, alveolus)

p. 981: parabronchi (singular, parabronchus), air sacs, cross-current flow

p. 982: visceral pleural membrane, parietal pleural membrane, pleural cavity, Boyle’s Law, external intercostal muscles, diaphragm

p. 983: tidal volume, anatomical dead space, vital capacity, emphysema, hypoventilation, hyperventilation

p. 984: respiratory control center, medulla oblongata, aortic and carotid bodies, peripheral chemoreceptors, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), central chemoreceptors

p. 986: hemoglobin, heme groups, oxyhemoglobin, deoxyhemoglobin, hemocyanin, hemolymph, percent oxyhemoglobin saturation, oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve

p. 987: carbonic acid, Bohr effect

p. 988: carbonic anhydrase, nitric oxide, super nitric oxide

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