Prefixes/Combining Forms
This combining form is used in the correct medical terminology for the common cold.
What is rhin/o?
When the prefix a- is combined with -phonia it results in this term and means this.
What is aphonia and means absence of voice/sound?
The nose is considered in this part of the respiratory tract.
What is upper?
Almost all respiratory system conditions that have inflammation would have this suffix.
What is -itis?
A patient who has abnormally slow breathing is diagnosed with this condition.
What is bradypnea?
The term -itis is used with this combining form to describe when a patient has inflammation of the large tubes of the lung.
What is bronch/o?
What is smooth muscle?
A vaccination given to very young children is used to prevent what is commonly called whooping cough. The correct medical term is this.
What is pertussis?
When a patient has low blood oxygen they have this condition.
What is hypoxemia?
When a patient has their adenoids removed the correct terminology is this...one combining form and two suffixes please!
What is an adenoidectomy?
What is an oximeter and oximetry?
Emphysema is a lung disease usually accompanied by chronic bronchitis. When a patient has both they are said to have COPD which stands for what?
What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
A patient suffered an injury to the trachea. This is the name of procedure that would be used to repair the trachea.
What is a tracheoplasty?
When a patient has no respiratory ventilation these three word parts are used to create the term (prefix, combining form and suffix).
What is a-, sphyx, and -ia?
This is the name of the type of physician who would diagnose you with asthma.
What is a pulmonologist?
This disease is characterized by inflammation of the lungs soft tissue with fluid in the alveoli.
What is pneumonia?
These two word parts, one a prefix, the second a combining form means high carbon dioxide levels in the blood.
What are hyper- and capn/o.
A patient who has long term exposure to dust particles may be diagnosed with this condnition; made of two combining forms and a suffix.
What is pneumoconiosis?
There are this many cavities associated with the lung and they are called this.
What is 3, parietal, visceral and pleural?
A common respiratory illness for infants this illness has a distinct coughing sound and is often called croup.
What is laryngotracheobronchitis?