Combining Forms
Bronchi/o
What is airway?
Nas/o
What is nose?
-itis
What is inflammation?
A, an-
What is no or without?
Pulmonologist
What is a lung doctor?
Laryngoscope
What is the instrument used to intubate a patient?
Pulmon/o
What is the lungs?
Trache/o
What is the trachea?
-capnia
What is carbon dioxide?
-staxis
What is dripping or flowing?
Dyspnea
What is difficult breathing?
Tracheostomy
What is an opening in the trachea to provide an airway?
Hem/o
What is blood?
Thorac/o
What is thorax?
-ectasis
What is dilation or widening?
Brady-
What is slow?
Bradypnea
What is slow breathing?
CPAP
What is continuous positive airway pressure?
Laryng/o
What is the larynx?
Acr/o
What is extremities?
-malacia
What is softening?
Dys-
What is abnormal, bad, difficult, or painful?
Apena
What is no or cessation of breathing?
CXR
What is the abbreviation for chest x-ray?
What is mucus?
Atel/o
What is incomplete?
-phonia
What is voice or sound?
-stenosis
What is narrowing?
Eupena
What is normal breathing?
MRI
What is the abbreviation for magnetic resonance imaging?
Palat/o
What is palate?
Cyan/o
What is blue?
-plegia
What is paralysis?
Epi-
What is above?
Aspiration
What is taking into the lung?
CT
What is the abbreviation for computed tomography?
Pharyng/o
What is the throat?
Py/o
What is pus?
-pnea
What is breathing?
Eu-
What is good or normal?
Hemoptysis
What is coughing up blood?
PET
What is the abbreviation for positron emission tomography?
Phon/o
What is sound?
Rhin/o
What is nose?
-ptysis
What is spitting?
Tachy-
What is fast?
Rhinorrhea
What is a runny nose?
COPD
What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
Pnuem/o or Pneumon/o
What is lungs, air, or gas?
Coni/o
What is dust?
-rrhagia
What is bursting forth with blood?
-centesis
What is a surgical procedure to remove fluid?
Epistaxis
What is a nose bleed?
-plasty
What is to repair?
Epiglott/o
What is the flap that separates your larynx from your trachea?
Scoli/o
What is crooked or twisted?
-rrhea
What is discharge or flow?
-meter
What is measure?
Thoracentesis
What is a procedure to remove fluid from the pleural cavity?
Asthma
What is a chronic inflammatory disease of the lungs that makes it difficult to breathe?