Organs Part One
This tube, which is commonly known as the windpipe, is located directly in front of the esophagus.
What is Trachea?
Sound/voice
The chronic inflammatory disease of the bronchial tubes, often triggered by an allergic reaction.
Asthma
A visual examination of the larynx and vocal cords using a flexible or rigid laryngoscope inserted through the mouth.
What is a laryngoscopy?
Are the smallest branches of the bronchi.
What is Bronchioles?
Receives the air after it passes through the nose or mouth, as well as food.
What is Pharynx?
Breathing
What is -pnea
The sudden and unexplainable death of an apparently sleeping infant between 1 month and 1 year.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
An external monitor placed on the patients fingertip or earlobe to measure the oxygen saturation level in the blood.
What is a pulse oximeter?
Is a dome-shaped sheet of muscle that separates the thoracic cavity from the abdomen. It is the contraction and relaxation of this muscle that makes breathing possible.
What is Diaphragm?
Is a triangular chamber located between the pharynx and the trachea, also known as the voice box
What is Larynx?
Lung, air
What is pneum/o, pneumon/o, pneu-
The loss of consciousness that occurs when the body cannot get the oxygen it needs to function.
Asphyxia
The surgical creation of a stoma into the trachea below the vocal cords to insert a temporary or permanent tube to facilitate breathing.
What is Tracheostomy?
Also known as air sacs, are very small, grapelike clusters found at the end of each bronchiole
What is Alveoli?
The thin hairs located just inside the nostrils, filter incoming air to remove debris.
What is Cilia?
Bronchial tube, bronchus
What is bronch/o, bronchi/o
When a foreign substance, such as vomit, is inhaled into the lungs.
Asperation pneumonia
What is a CPAP machine (continuous positive airway pressure)
is larger and has three lobes: the upper, middle, and lower (or superior, middle, and inferior).
What is Right Lung?
A lid-like structure located at the base of the tongue, swings downward and closes off the laryngopharynx so that food does not enter the trachea and the lungs.
What is Epiglottis?
Chest, pleural cavity
What is thorac/o, -thorac
Easy or normal breathing
Eupnea
The surgical puncture of the chest wall with a needle to obtain fluid from the pleural cavity.
What is Thoracentesis
Is a thin, moist, and slippery membrane that covers the outer surface of the lungs and lines the inner surface of the thoracic cavity