Path Con Pulmonology Word Scramble
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Term | Meaning |
dyspnea | difficult or painful respiration |
sputum | material coughed up from the lungs and expectorated through the mouth |
hypercapnia | increased level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the blood |
COPD | a group of lung diseases that is characterized by chronic persistent obstruction of the airway |
tachypnea | abnormally rapid breathing; hyperventilation |
emphysema | chronic condition that develops slowly where there is destruction of alveolar walls and permanently inflated alveolar air spaces |
consolidation | solidification of the lungs caused by pneumonia |
bronchiolitis | common infection in young children caused by the respiratory syncytial virus |
asphyxia | condition caused by insufficient oxygen intake as in drowning, shock, inhalation of toxic smoke, or lodging of a foreign body in the respiratory tract |
atelectasis | collapse of a lung or part of a lung |
pulmonary embolus | blood clot or other material that travels through the bloodstream and lodges in the pulmonary vessels |
tuberculosis | infectious disease that produces tubercles in the lung; contracted through aerosol transmission |
pleurisy | inflammation of the pleural membranes |
anoxemia | deficiency of oxygen in the blood |
accute respiratory distress syndrome | a form of pulmonary edema in which dyspnea and tachypnea are followed by progressive hypoxemia; also called shock lung |
hydrothorax | a noninflammatory accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity |
adventituous | abnormal breath sounds heard on auscultation to the chest |
cystic fibrosis | genetic disorder that results in thick, tenacious mucus due to a defect in the exocrine glands |
anthracosis | accumulation of carbon deposits in the lungs from inhalation of coal dust or smoke |
pneumothorax | collection of air or gas in the pleural cavity |
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