Diagnostic Terms Word Parts
Disease and Disorder Word Parts
Surgical Terms
Suffixes
Organs
100

Taking a radiographic picture of the lungs and heart

What is an X-ray

100

Inflammatory condition of the lung that can be caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, and aspirated substances; results in the filling of the alveoli and air spaces with fluid.

What is pneumonia

100
Excision of the tonsils
What is tonsillectomy
100
meaning pain
What is -algia
100
Two spongelike organs in the thoracic cavity. The right consists of 3 lobes; the left consists of 2 lobes
What is Lungs
200

Instrument used to view inside a bronchus

What is bronchoscope

200

Pertaining to (in) the lung, new growth (tumor)

What is pulmonary neoplasm, or lung cancer

200
Surgical repair of the nose
What is rhinoplasty
200
breathing
What is -pnea
200
Air sacks at the end of the broncholes. Oxygen and Carbon dioxide are exchanged through the walls and cappilaries
What is Alveolus.. Alveoli
300
A measurement of breathing or lung volumes
What is spirometry
300

Air in the chest cavity (pleura space), which causes collapse of the lung.

What is Pneumothroax

300

Surgical repair of a bronchus.

What is bronchoplasty

300
process of recording; radiographic imaging
What is -graphy
300

Excess carbon dioxide in the lungs

What is hypercapnia

400

Record of sound which is converted into an image

What is sonogram/ echogram

400

Narrowing of the trachea.

What is Tracheostenosis

400

Incision of the larynx and trachea

What is laryngotracheotomy

400
surgical puncture to aspirate fluids
What is -centesis
400
double-folded serous membrane covering each lung; visceral.....and lining the thoracic cavity parietal .... with a small space between called ....... cavity, which contains serous fluid.
What is Pleura
500

Examination of the interior of the larynx with a lighted instrument for viewing

What is laryngoscope

500

Inflammation of the larynx, trachea, and bronchi.

What is laryngotracheobronchitis (LTB)

500

Surgical procedure to aspirate/drian fluid from the chest cavity.

What is thoracocentesis.

500
constriction or narrowing
What is -stenonsis
500
Space between lungs that contains the heart, esophagus, trachea, great blood vessels and other structures.
What is mediastinum
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