Combining Forms
The combining form pleur/o means
What is lung?
Metered dosed inhaler
What is MDI?
A disease that causes episodic narrowing and inflammation of the airways and produces the symptoms of wheezing and SOB
What is asthma?
The mouth, nose, sinuses and pharynx are all part of it
What is the upper airway?
This is useful in measuring the patient's lung capacity.
What is the pulmonary function test?
Lobectomy meaning
What is the surgical removal of a lobe of the lung?
The combing form for chondr/o
What is cartilage?
Arterial blood gases
What is ABGs?
A group of diseases in which the alveolar air sacs are destroyed resulting in chronic severe SOB
What is COPD - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
Divides thenasal passages into right and left sides
What is the nasal septum?
This test is useful when the physician needs to evaluate circulation within the patient's lungs
What is a pulmonary angiography?
Interpleural meaning
What is between pleural cavities?
The combining form that means nose is
What is rhin/o?
this abbreviation of Stat
What indicates a sense of urgency?
Life-threatening condition of lung injury that develops secondary to some other lung trauma or disorder
What is ARDS - acute respiratory distress syndrome?
Vibrates to make sound when we talk
What is the larynx
measurement of the volume of air that can be exhaled after maximum inspiration
What is vital capacity?
Hemothorax meaning
What is blood or bodily fluid collected in the intrapleural space?
Straight is the meaning for this combining form
What is orth/o?
The abbreviation OSA
What is Obstructive Sleep Apnea?
The definition of epistaxis
What is a nose bleed?
The elastic quality that allows the lungs to expand and contract
What is recoil?
Thoracentesis
What is the surgical puncture of the chest wall to remove fluid from the interpleural space?
Eating or swallowing air
What is aerophagia?
The combining form coni/o has this meaning
What is dust
The abbreviation is CF
What is cystic fibrosis?
The definition of rhonchi
What is the coarse, gurgling sounds heard in the lungs with a stethoscope, caused by secretions in the passageways?
The function and structure of alveoli
What are microscopic sacs in the lungs used for gas exchange?
Pleurodesis test
What is the infusion of a sterile substance into the pleural space causing the pleural linings to fuse to one another by developing scar tissue?
Pain in the pleura
What is pleurodynia?
The combining form spir/o has this meaning
What is breathing?
The abbreviation is DOE
What is dyspnea on exertion?
The definition of empyema
What is the collection of infected fluid or pus in the pleural cavity?
Function and location of sinus cavities
Mantoux test
What is the intradermal injection of tuberculin purified protein derivative just beneath the surface of the skin to identify if the patient has been exposed to tuberculosis?
Softening of the pharynx
What is pharyngomalacia?