BIOL 2443 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Septal Nasal Cartilage, Alveolar Cells, Paranasal Sinuses

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Introduction: principal functions, gas exchange, gas transport, other functions, regulating blood ph, contains receptors for the sense of sell, filters inhaled air, produces sounds (phonation, rids the body of small amounts of water and heat in exhaled air. Paired minor alar cartilages: external nares por nostrils, nasal vestibules area between nostrils and nasala chonchae, interal nares/choanae, interal nose, clinical connection - rhinoplasty. Subdivides each side of the nasal cavity into a series of groove-like passageways: superior meatus, middle meatus, inferior meatus. Paranasal sinuses: frontal, sphenoidal, maxillary, ethmoidal. Nasal cavity is divided by an intermediate nasal septum into right and left halves. Functions of the pharynx: passageway for air and food, provides a resonating chamber for speech sounds, houses the tonsils. The pharynx can be divided into three anatomical regions: nasopharynx, oropharynx, laryngopharynx. Muscles of pharynx are innervated by cranial nerves ix and x. Voice box connects to the layngopharynx with the trachea.

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