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The combining form means larynx.
What is a Laryng/o.
The muscle that separates the chest and abdomen.
What is the diaphragm?
What is laryngitis?
What is a laryngectomy?
This device provides artificial respiration.
What is a ventilator?
This combining form means trachea.
This structure acts as a lid so food does not enter the lungs.
What is the epiglottis?
This term means bleeding from the lungs.
What is pneumorrhagia?
This procedure is the surgical repair of the nasal septum.
What is septoplasty?
These structures are the receptors for the sense of smell.
What are olfactory?
What is pulm/o?
This structure is commonly known as the windpipe.
What is the trachea?
This term is also known as a nosebleed.
What is epistaxis?
This medication expands the bronchus into the lungs.
What is bronchodilator?
What is phon/o?
This structure is an air-filled cavity within a bone.
What is the sinus?
This condition comes from working with asbestos.
What is asbestosis?
This emergency procedure is an incision into the trachea.
What is tracheotomy?
What is asphyxia?
What is -pnea?
These membranes encase the lungs.
What is the pleura?
This term is also known as whooping cough.
What is pertussis?
This procedure is a surgical incision into the wall of the chest?
What is Thoracotomy?
This is what phelgm is called when it is ejected through the mouth.
What is Sputum?