This is also part of the upper respiratoy tract, nose, turbinates, pharynx, larynx and _____.
B. sinuses
Another name for the voice box is:
C. larynx...laryngitis
This is the windpipe:
B. trachea...tracheotomy
Interior of nose is divided by the:
C. septum
This combining form means incomplete:
D. atel/o
This combining form means breath:
A. spir/o
This combining form means nose:
a. pneum/o
b. rhin/o
c. sept/o
d. nas/o
both b. rhin/o and d. nas/o
This prefix means all:
B. pan
This prefix means many:
D) a. poly- many
b. tetra- four
c. uni- one
d. bi- two
This abbreviation refers to a syndrome that involves difficulty in breathing:
D. ARDS: adult respiratory distress syndrome
This abbreviation refers to amount of air patient can expel from the lungs in 1 second:
B. FEV1
This suffix means breathing:
B. -pnea
Which suffix does NOT mean pertaining to:
C. -capnia...carbon dioxide
Acute injury to alveolocapillary membrane that results in edema and atelectasis:
C. adult respiratory distress syndome
Condition in which pus is in pleural space and is often a complication of pneumonia:
A. empyema
Which of the following is NOT one of the most common types of atelectasis:
D. expansion
This condition is a result of accumulation of dust particles in lung:
D. pneumoconiosis
An irreversible airway obstructive disease in which symptoms are bronchial spam, dyspnea and wheezing:
B. COPD
Cylindrical, varicose and secular/cystic are examples of:
D. bronchiectasis
Condition in which there is a loss of elasticity and enlargement of alveoli:
C. emphysema
Definition of a chronic cough is one that lasts for over this number of weeks:
D. 3
A condiyion marked by an increase in carbon dioxide in arterial blood and decreased ability to breath that can result in respiratory acidosis:
D. hypercapnia
This condition often follows a viral infection and occurs in children under 2 years of age. Examples of various types of this condition are constrictive, proliferating and obliterative.