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Pathology – Respiratory System

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Auscultation:   Listening to sounds within the body.  
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Percussion:   Tapping on the surface to determine the differences in the density of the underlying structure.  
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Pleural rub:   Scratchy sound produced by pleural surfaces rubbing against each other. (also called a friction rub).  
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Rales (crackles).   Fine crackling sounds heard on auscultation (during inhalation) when there is fluid in the alveoli.  
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Rhonchi (singular: rhonchus)   loud rumbling sound heard on a auscultation of bronchi by sputum.  
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Sputum:   Material expelled from the bronchi, lungs, or upper respiratory tract by spitting.  
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C & S   Culture and sensitivity studies identify the sputum pathogenic and determine which antibiotic will be affected in destroying or reducing its growth.  
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Stridor:   Strained, high-pitched sound heard on inspiration by obstruction in the pharynx or the larynx.  
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Wheezes:   Continuous high cash whistling sound produced during breathing. (patients with asthma, commonly experience wheezing as bronchi narrow and tighten.  
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Croup:   Acute viral infection of infants and children with obstruction of the larynx, a company by barking cough and stridor. the most common causative agents are influenza viruses or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).  
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Diphtheria:   Acute infection of the throat and upper respiratory tract caused by diphtheria bacterium (Corynebacterium).  
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Epistaxis:   Nosebleed  
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Pertussis:   Whooping Cough; highly contagious bacterial in section of the pharynx.  
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