What is the structure where air enters the body, which is lined with cilia?
100
A respiratory therapist
What is an allied health care professional who specializes in airway management, mechanical ventilation, and blood acid-base balance? from the latin word respirare
100
The common cold
What is the infectious rhinitis?
100
Apnea
What is the absence of breathing?
100
ABG
What is the abbreviation for arterial blood gas
200
Pharynx
What is also known as the throat?
200
A Pulmonologist
What is the physician called who specializes in diagnosing and treating respiratory disorders? pulmon/o (lung) - logist (one who specializes)
200
Cheyne-Stokes
What is a rhythmic respiratory pattern in which a variation in depth of respirations alternates with periods of apnea?
200
Bronchial pneumonia
What is the inflammation of the smaller bronchial tubes?
200
SOB
What is abbreviation for shortness of breath?
300
bronchus
What is bronch/o, bronchi/o meaning?
300
Otolarynogology
What is the branch of study concerned with the ear, nose, and throat and diagnosis and treatment of its diseases?
300
The flu
What is influenza?
300
Pertussis
What is an acute infectious inflammation of the larynx, trachea, and bronchi?
300
R
What is the abbreviation for respiratory rate?
400
The trachea
What is the structure that is also known as the windpipe?
400
Physician who specializes in diagnosis and treatment of ear, nose, and throat disease?
What is an otolaryngologist?
400
Pertussis
What is whooping cough?
400
Croup
What is a viral infection that causes swelling of the larynx and epiglottis; a barking noise is characteristic?
400
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
What is COPD?
500
vocal cords
What are the folds of mucous membranes that vibrate as air from the lungs flowers over them to produce sound?
500
Pulmonology
What is the medical specialty of diagnosing and treating respiratory disorders?
500
Discomfort or difficulty in breathing while lying flat?