Anatomy and Physiology
supplemental terminology
Key Medical Terminology
100
A tube reinforced with C-shaped rings of cartilage to prevent its collapse.
What is the Trachea?
100
COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
What is the occurrence of chronic bronchitis or emphysema
100
The combining form phrenic/o is referring to this sympathetic vessel
What is the phrenic nerve?
200
Surgical dilation of the blocked vessel by means of a balloon catheter
What is angioplasty?
200
viral respiratory disease associated with chills, fever, headaches, and muscular aches
What is influenza
200
The words forming the example "intranasal" include the combining form nas/o which means
What is the nose?
300
When part of the stomach moves upward into the chest cavity through the space in the diaphragm through which the esophagus passes
What is a Hiatal Hernia?
300
superior portion located behind the nasal cavity
What is nasopharynx
300
The combining form that means or refers to lungs
What is pulmon/o
400
Promotes reabsorption of water of water thus concentrating the filtrate.
What is Antidiuretic hormone (ADH)?
400
external exchange takes place
What is lung
400
The root word describing air/gas or respiration/lung
What is pneum/o?
500
Forms a bulge on the anterior surface of the brainstem and contains fibers that connect different regions of the brain
What is the Pons?
500
inflammation of the nasal passageways with mucous, tearing of the eyes and congestion
What is acute rhinitis
500
A respiration which originates in the bronchus
What is bronchogenic?
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