Problems getting air?
This is the meaning of tachypnea.
What is rapid breathing?
What type of pneumonia is caused by breathing food, liquids, or vomit into the lungs
What is aspiration pneumonia?
Combining form meaning 'chest'.
What is thorac/o?
Prefix meaning 'rapid'
What is tachy-?
(ex: tachypnea is abnormally rapid breathing, > 20 breaths per minute)
This is a passageway for both food and air, but we are not talking the oral cavity.
What is pharynx?
Medication that expands the airways
What is a bronchodilator?
Who is the country singer who originally sang this song?
Who is Faith Hill
Use of a stethoscope to listen for abnormal breath sounds.
What is auscultation?
The clinical term for an acute respiratory infection in children and infants characterized by obstruction of the larynx, hoarseness, and swelling around the vocal cords. Results in a "dog-like" barky cough.
What is croup?
Combining form meaning blue.
What is cyan/o?
This suffix means breathing
What is -pnea?
Air sacks at the end of the bronchioles. Oxygen and Carbon dioxide are exchanged through the walls and capillaries.
What is Alveolus.. Alveoli
Claritin is an example of what classification of drugs used to control sneezing, itchiness, and rashes that are common symptoms of "allergic rhinitis"?
What are Antihistamines?
Lung Sound #1
What is a wheeze?
Procedure that helps maintain an open airway to facilitate artificial ventilation
What is Endotracheal Intubation?
Term that refers to serious inflammatory condition of the lungs in which alveoli and air passages fill with pus and other fluids.
What is pneumonia?
Combining form meaning air; lung.
What is pulmon/o or pneumon/o?
A prefix meaning 'slow'.
What is brady-?
(ex: bradypnea is slow abnormally slow breathing, > 10 breaths per minute)
This organ is commonly known as the voice box
What is the larnyx?
Used to liquefy respiratory secretions.
What is an expectorant? (ex: mucinex)
Full meaning of the abbreviation SOB (hint: not son of a...)
What is Shortness of Breath?
Accumulation of extravascular fluid in lung tissues and alveoli, commonly caused by heart failure
What is Pulmonary Edema?
A nosebleed.
What is epistaxis?
Combining form meaning 'smell'.
What is olfact/o?
Suffix meaning 'to measure'.
What is -meter?
(ex: and oximeter can be placed on the finger or earlobe to measure oxygen)
This 'lid' over the laryngopharynx protects the entrance of the larynx to prevent aspiration of food into the trachea.
What is the epiglottis?
Used to suppress coughing.
What is antitussives?
The original singers of this song.
Who are Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown?
Medical term for the temporary absence of spontaneous breathing?
Sleep Apnea
A group of respiratory diseases that are all considered under one umbrella name (Hint: COPD).
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?
Also known as "air sacs"
What is alveoli
This suffix means an 'to create a surgical opening'.
What is -ostomy?
(ex: tracheostomy - the surgical creation of a stoma into the trachea (windpipe) to insert a temporary or permanent tube to facilitate breathing.
Space between lungs that contains the heart, esophagus, bronchi, aorta and other structures.
What is mediastinum
Classification of drugs inhaled directly to reduce allergic and inflammatory actions
What are Corticosteroids?
DAILY DOUBLE
What was wrong with the man?
pertussis (a.k.a whooping cough)