Medical Specialists
Medical Equipment & Devices
Respiratory Conditions & Diseases
Surgical Procedures
Respiratory System Basics
100
This specialist treats patients suffering from heart or lung disorders.
Who is a respiratory therapist or Pulmonologist?
100
This device delivers medicine in the form of a fine mist that can be inhaled into the lungs.
What is a nebulizer?
100
This condition results from prolonged exposure to cigarette smoke, which degrades the walls of the alveoli.
What is emphysema?
100
The surgical removal of the larynx is called this.
What is a laryngectomy (removal of the voicebox)?
100
A doctor uses a _______ to listen to the internal body sounds, primarily to the sounds produced by the heart, the lungs, and the intestinal tract.
What is a Stethoscope?
200
This specialist treats patients suffering from any disorders and/or diseases.
Who is an internist (internal medicine physician) treats general adult medical disorders and diseases.
200
A nebulizer can be used with this facial covering or a mouthpiece.
What is a mask?
200
A chronic condition that narrows and inflames the airways, making it hard to breathe.
What is Asthma?
200
The suffix “-ectomy” means this.
What is removal or surgical removal?
200
This is a drug delivery device that delivers medicine in the form of a fine mist that the patient can easily inhale through a mouthpiece, or a mask, into the lungs.
What is a Nebulizer?
300
This type of specialist would you see if you had chronic bronchitis.
Who is a pulmonologist?
300
This is the route of administration when medicine is delivered through a nebulizer.
What is inhalation via the Nostrils or Mouth?
300
An infection that inflames the air sacs in one or both lungs, which may fill with fluid.
What is Pneumonia?
300
Replacement of one or both diseased lungs with healthy donor organs.
What is a Lung Transplant?
300
The respiratory system’s main function is to bring this gas into the body.
What is oxygen?
400
If you needed help managing a ventilator in the hospital, this specialist would assist you.
Who is a respiratory therapist?
400
A simple pump device used to inject liquids into or withdraw liquids from the body or other containers.
What is a syringe?
400
A viral infection that affects the nose, throat, and lungs.
What is Influenza (The Flu)?
400
When tumors (cancers) need to be removed, the surgeon will perform a ?
What is thoracotomy by cutting into the chest (thorax).
400
Breathing in is called inhalation; breathing out is called this.
What is exhalation?
500
A doctor who specializes in general diseases and their causes & they study tissue and lab samples
Who is a Pathologist?
500
A shallow, round, flat glass or plastic dish that scientists use to grow and study cells, bacteria, or fungi.
What is a Petri dish?
500
A contagious viral respiratory and systemic disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Inflammation causes the tiny air sacs (alveoli) in the lungs to fill with fluid, mucus, and inflammatory cells, which blocks oxygen from reaching the bloodstream. Severe infections can lead to pneumonia, blood clots in lung microvessels, and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) requiring mechanical ventilation.
What is Covid-19?
500
This Reconstructive surgery is done to repair some part of an organ.
What is a common suffix, –plasty, which means “surgical repair.”