What is the site called where the trachea divides into smaller airways?!
Question: When a bronchoscope is passed down the trachea to visualize airways the first structure encountered is a site where the trachea divides into smaller airways. What is this site called?
A. turbinate
B. chordae
C. tracheal bifurcation
D. mediastinum
Answers: When a bronchoscope is passed down the trachea to visualize airways the first structure encountered is a site where the trachea divides into smaller airways. What is this site called?
A. turbinate
B. chordae
C. tracheal bifurcation
D. mediastinum
c.
Turbinate are the scrolled spongy bones in the nasal passageways
Chordae would be like Cordae tendenae which open and close the valves ( mitral and tricuspid ) of the heart
And Mediastinum is basically the thoracic cavity ( The chest )
C. Tracheal Birfucation
C. Tracheal bifurcation.
C. tracheal bifurcation.