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Breathing
The Amazing Throat
Vitals are Vital
Medical Problems
Word Parts
100
Another name for the trachea is
What is The Wind pipe
100
Croup often affects
What is Children
100
Exchange of gases between blood and body cells takes place in the
What is alveoli
100
Hypotension
What is Low Blood pressure
100
spir/o
What is Breath
200
Breathing (ventilation) is stimulated by the
What is phrenic nerve
200
The “air sacs” of the respiratory system are the
What is alveoli
200
Another name for the common cold is
What is rhinitis
200
A collapsed lung is
What is atelectasis
200
pneum/o, pneumon/o
What is Lung
300
The vocal cords are found in the
What is larynx
300
Hypoxia is
What is inadequate oxygen in tissue
300
Body temperature is the
What is the balance between the heat produced by the body and the heat lost
300
medical word for a nosebleed is
What is epistaxis
300
capn/o
What is carbon dioxide
400
Another name for whooping cough is
What is pertussis
400
The epiglottis covers the ____ when a person swallows.
What is trachea
400
A pulse rate below 60 beats per minute is termed
What is bradycardia
400
Which term refers to the spaces between pulsations?
What is rhythm
400
cost/o
What is Rib
500
Emphysema is the
What is distention and destruction of the alveoli
500
Pulse oximetry measures the amount of
What is oxygen in arterial blood
500
In taking a blood pressure, the systolic pressure refers to the
What is pressure against the artery wall when the heart’s ventricles contract
500
Excision of the palatine tonsils is
What is tonsillectomy
500
salping/o
What is eustachian tube