| Question |
Answer |
| Muscular membranous wall seperating the thoracic and abdominal cavities |
diaphragm |
| another name for windpipe |
trachea |
| nosebleed |
epistaxis |
| Black lung disease |
anthracosis |
| inner layer of pleura |
visceral pleura |
| lower portion of pharnyx |
laryngopharynx |
| upperportion of pharnyx |
nasopharynx |
| using a needle to collect pleural fluid from pleural space |
thoracentesis |
| rales or rattling in the throat |
rhonchi |
| hair-like projections that sweep particles toward the throat |
cilia |
| cessation of breathing |
apnea |
| movement of oxygen and carbon dioxide on the cellular level |
internal respiration |
| expectoration of blood |
hemotysis |
| process of inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide |
external respiration |
| a collection of gas in the pleural cavity |
pneumothrorax |
| difficulty breathing |
dyspnea |
| to view |
scop/o |
| chest |
thorac/o or pector/o |
| nose |
rhin/o or nas/o |
| lungs |
pulmon/o |
| lung or air |
pneum/o |
| breathing |
pne/o |
| diaphragm |
phren/o |
| straight |
ortho |
| ARF |
acute respiratory failure |
| R |
respiration |
| SIDS |
sudden infant death syndrome |
| TPR |
temperature, pulse, respiration |
| AP |
anteroposterior |
| CXR |
chest x-ray |
| the double folded membrane that lines the thoracic cavity |
pleura |
| air cells of the lungs (functional unit of the lungs) |
alveoli |
| external nostrils |
nares |