System
Upper Airway
Lower Airway
Accessories
Pathology
100
The term for exchange of gasses between the atmosphere and body cells.
What is respiration?
100
A combining form for nose.
What is nas/o or rhin/o?
100
The combining form for trachea.
What is trache/o?
100
The combining form for ribs.
What is cost/o?
100
The term for not breathing.
What is apnea?
200
The term for bringing in fresh air.
What is ventilation?
200
The external openings of the nose.
What is nares?
200
The combining form for bronchus.
What is bronch/o?
200
The main organ of respiration.
What is lungs?
200
The term for abnormally fast breathing.
What is tachypnea.
300
A combining form for oxygen.
What is ox/i, ox/o, ox/y?
300
The combining form for pharynx.
What is pharyng/o?
300
The smaller branches of the bronchi.
What is bronchioles?
300
Well defined divisions of the lungs.
What is lobes?
300
The term for surgical removal of a well defined portion of the lung.
What is lobectomy?
400
The combining form for carbon dioxide.
What is capn/o?
400
The combining form for larynx.
What is laryng/o?
400
The air sacs where gas exchange occurs.
What is alveoli?
400
A combining form for lungs that cannot also be used for air.
What is pulm/o, pulmon/o?
400
A condition of low oxygen.
What is hypoxia?
500
The muscle that separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities.
What is the diaphragm?
500
The common name for the pharynx is __________ and the larynx is _________.
What is throat, voice box?
500
The combining form for alveoli.
What is alveol/o?
500
A combining form for lungs or air.
What is pneum/o or pneumon/o?
500
The term for a bluish hue to the gums or tongue.
What is cyanosis?
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