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

Pertaining to the lung

What is pulmonary

100

Air in the lungss

What is pneumothorax?

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

Measuring of breathing

What is a spirometer

200
Pertaining to (in) the lung, new growth (tumor)
What is pulmonary neoplasm
200
Surgical repair of the nose
What is rhinoplasty
200
breathing
What is -pnea
200

Air sacs.

What is Alveolus.. Alveoli

300
Blueness, a condition of decreases oxygen in the blood

What is cyanosis?

300

Surgical repair of the nose

What is Rhinoplasty?

300
Instrument used to cut the adenoids
What is adenotome
300
process of recording; radiographic imaging
What is -graphy
300

Small bronchi

What are bronchioles?

400

Tonsillectomy

What is removal of tonsills

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

Muscle separating the chest and abdomen.

What is the diaphragm.

500

Excessive Carbon Dioxide

What is hypercapnia?

500
Inflammation of the larynx, trachea, and bronchi.
What is laryngotracheobronchitis (LTB)
500

Without breathing

What is apnea

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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