ANATOMY
Medical term for voice box
What is the larynx?
Medical term for windpipe
What is the trachea?
Chronic bronchial inflammatory disorder due to bronchial edema, constriction, increased mucus triggered by an allergen.
What is asthma?
Medical term for blood in sputum/coughing up blood-tinged sputum
What is hemoptysis?
Surgical repair of the nose
What is rhinoplasty?
Air sacs in the lungs
What are alveoli?
Trachea bifurcates (splits) into these two tubes leading to each lung
What are bronchii?
The condition of a clot or other material lodged in vessels of the lung.
What is pulmonary embolism? (PE)
Chronic bronchitis and emphysema are examples of this.
What is COPD?
Vaccine given to provide immunity against three diseases, including whooping cough.
What is DPT vaccine? (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus)
Flap of cartilage that covers the airway, preventing aspiration of food/liquid
What is the epiglottis?
Bronchi subdivide into these smaller branches
What are bronchioles?
Term for a collapsed lung; can be a post-op complication or due to an obstruction.
What is atelectasis?
Malignant neoplasm originating in a lung or bronchus
What is lung cancer?
Test for exposure to tuberculosis
What is PPD/Mantoux/tine test?
Outermost of the two membranes covering the lungs
What is the parietal pleura?
Exchange of these gases takes place in the alveoli.
What are oxygen and carbon dioxide?
Inherited disease of exocrine glands that leads to airway obstruction due to excessive thick mucus
What is cystic fibrosis?
Acute respiratory syndrome in children marked by obstruction of larynx and stridor
What is croup?
Pulmonary resection/removal of a lung
What is a pneumonectomy?
Innermost of the double-layered membrane covering the lungs
What is the visceral pleura?
Uppermost part of the lung is the _____, the lower part is the _________.
What is the apex and the base?
Disease where alveoli deteriorate; most cases caused by smoking
What is emphysema?
Acute infectious disease of the throat, leathery membrane forms; can be prevented by DPT vaccine
What is diphtheria?
Surgical puncture of chest to remove fluid from the pleural space
What is thoracentesis?