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Chapter 12
Pathology – Respiratory System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Auscultation: | Listening to sounds within the body. |
| Percussion: | Tapping on the surface to determine the differences in the density of the underlying structure. |
| Pleural rub: | Scratchy sound produced by pleural surfaces rubbing against each other. (also called a friction rub). |
| Rales (crackles). | Fine crackling sounds heard on auscultation (during inhalation) when there is fluid in the alveoli. |
| Rhonchi (singular: rhonchus) | loud rumbling sound heard on a auscultation of bronchi by sputum. |
| Sputum: | Material expelled from the bronchi, lungs, or upper respiratory tract by spitting. |
| C & S | Culture and sensitivity studies identify the sputum pathogenic and determine which antibiotic will be affected in destroying or reducing its growth. |
| Stridor: | Strained, high-pitched sound heard on inspiration by obstruction in the pharynx or the larynx. |
| Wheezes: | Continuous high cash whistling sound produced during breathing. (patients with asthma, commonly experience wheezing as bronchi narrow and tighten. |
| 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). |
| Diphtheria: | Acute infection of the throat and upper respiratory tract caused by diphtheria bacterium (Corynebacterium). |
| Epistaxis: | Nosebleed |
| Pertussis: | Whooping Cough; highly contagious bacterial in section of the pharynx. |
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